America's First Banana Recipe — Fannie Farmer's 1896 Fritters

In 1876, Americans paid an entry fee just to look at a banana tree. Twenty years later, Fannie Farmer published her banana fritter recipe in the 1896 Boston Cooking School Cook Book and bananas went from exotic curiosity to American staple. This is the 8th of 10 episodes in my Road to 250 series. This banana fritter recipe comes from the same cookbook that standardized American measurements and taught millions of Americans how to cook. Bananas had only been introduced to most Americans at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition where the banana tree was guarded to keep people from taking a “souvenir”. By 1896, Fannie Farmer had the banana fritter in her famous cook book. #ForgottenRecipes #BananaFritters #FannieFarmer #America250 #1896Recipes #VintageRecipes #HistoricalCooking #BananaFrittersRecipe #IronSpoonKitchen