766. Gelato di Banane

Banana Ice

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      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

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The banana tree, Linnaeus’s musa paradisiaca, is popularly called Adam’s Fig or Tree of Paradise in his country because it is commonly believed that this is the famous forbidden fruit, and that its ample leaves were used to cover Adam and Eve’s nakedness after the sin of disobedience.

It grows in the Indies and its fruit is in the form of a large pod whose appearance resembles a green cucumber, but it is smooth, triangular and curved. Its pulp has a delicate fla

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