Recipe - Bananas Flambees

3 Bananas
3 tablespoon Butter
1 cup Sugar
2 ounce Rum

Peel bananas, splitting lengthwise and cutting in halves. Place bananas in
a buttered, shallow, ovenproof baking dish and dot with butter. Sprinkle
sugar over bananas. Bake uncovered at 325'F for about 35 minutes. Set dish
on stove, being careful to keep warm. Pour rum in a longhandled spoon,
which has been warmed by dipping in boiling water. Set a match to the rum
and as it flames pour over bananas. As it runs down in the dish, ladle it
up and over the bananas until the flaming ceases. The secret of this
dessert is to have all ingredients warm, otherwise it will not flame well.

This old recipe, as good today as years ago, was brought to Louisiana by a
distant relative of Empress Josephine, at whose table this was often
served.

Source: Recipes and Reminiscences of New Orleans Recipe: Mrs. Reginald C.
Watson