When bananas arrived in British shops in the late 1800s, no one quite knew what to do with them. They were exotic, expensive, and eaten with a knife and fork by people who wanted to signal they knew what they were doing. Cookbooks of the era largely ignored them. Mrs. Beeton had … [Read more...] about Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins: The Victorian Fruit That Earned Its Place in the Muffin Tin
