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This week, we are going to make a dessert with bananas and prunes!

This is Black and White Fluff!

AuthorRetroRuth

From Prunes For Epicures, 35 Intriguing Recipes - United Prune Growers of California, 1933

Tested Recipe!

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 1 ½ cups prunes
 2 bananas
 12 large marshmallows (use 96 mini mallows)
 ½ pt whipping cream
 ½ tsp lemon extract

1

Boil prunes for 10 minutes in enough water to cover, drain, cool and chill.

2

Cut prunes into small pieces. Slice bananas. If you are using large marshmallows, cut them into 8 pieces. Whip cream until stiff, add prunes, bananas, marshmallows, lemon extract, and fold in.

3

Serve in footed glasses with a maraschino cherry on top. Fluff can be stored in the refrigerator for up to two days.
Yield: 6 to 8

Ingredients

 1 ½ cups prunes
 2 bananas
 12 large marshmallows (use 96 mini mallows)
 ½ pt whipping cream
 ½ tsp lemon extract

Directions

1

Boil prunes for 10 minutes in enough water to cover, drain, cool and chill.

2

Cut prunes into small pieces. Slice bananas. If you are using large marshmallows, cut them into 8 pieces. Whip cream until stiff, add prunes, bananas, marshmallows, lemon extract, and fold in.

3

Serve in footed glasses with a maraschino cherry on top. Fluff can be stored in the refrigerator for up to two days.
Yield: 6 to 8

Notes

Black and White Fluff

Now, if you don’t recognize this book, it is the book I made California Prune Cream Salad out of a couple of years ago. It was terrible. So I have ankle-high expectations for this recipe. If you want to see this whole cookbook, it is available in the Digital Cookbook Library for all patrons on my Patreon. (Only available on Patreon for copyright reasons!) This recipe, and one other prune gem, were chosen recently by the patrons in a poll. It was a big poll because there are lots and lots and lots of recipes in that book that would be very at home on this blog.

So, you can tell by my picture above that I opted to use large marshmallows and cut them into 8 pieces each. And you can tell by this picture that it was a huge pain in my kitchen shears. That mess on the cutting board is all the cornstarch I needed to add to be able to cut the mallows.

But that is a small complaint, in the grand scheme of things. At least I didn’t have to add chili sauce to this whipped cream.

I always forget how much better prunes taste after they have been boiled for a little bit. I might have snacked on a couple while I was putting this together. But I didn’t eat any marshmallows, because I was mad at them.

Here it is all goo-ed up! This looked pretty plain, but it smelled really good, like lemons and marshmallows. So I guess the marshmallows are forgiven.

I also got to use some new footed glasses I ordered online recently because I love everything that can be used as a mid-century kitchen prop. Oh, and all the extra cornstarch really helped this fluff keep its shape.

But now it was time to see how it made the fluff taste.

“Can you tell what’s in it?”

“Banana, marshmallows, and something liquidy.”

“Prunes.”

“Prunes?! That’s excellent, I was just saying I need to eat more prunes.”

The Verdict: Surprisingly Good!

From The Testing Notes –Β 

Overall, the Black and White fluff was really good. I thought it be a little on the mush side, but I enjoyed it and so did Tom and the kids. The marshmallows were a total pain to cut up, and I would just recommend using mini mallows if you don’t like sticky. I took the time to snip them all up because I wanted to make sure that I made as accurate a fluff as possible, and I’m not sure that I did because I ended up adding extra cornstarch. But, the fluff was very creamy and squishy. It wasn’t overly sweet, and you could taste marshmallows, but not really bananas and only occasionally taste prunes. Β The prunes also tasted less prune-y just by doing that 10 minute boil. If you need texture in your food, like TJ, and you can’t just choke goo down, you might want to add some nuts or chocolate chips. Oh, and do NOT leave out the lemon extract, because the flavor hinges on that little bit of lemon flavor. (P.S. Video taste testings are available on my Patreon! If you think Tom is hilarious on paper, you should hear him on video. And those videos are only available on Patreon because my kids are in them a lot, and so is my messy house.)

P.S.S. Lambcake season is upon us! Start getting your lambs molded and frosted, because the 10th Annual Lamb Cake contest will be announced and begin on March 12th!!!!

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