6 bananas. 1 wine glass white wine. 1/2 cup powdered sugar. 1 wine glass tepid water. 1 lump of sugar. 3 drops eau de cologne. 1 cup whipped cream. 1 doz. preserved violets.

Put in a glass dish a layer of ice, well powdered with sugar, and upon this a layer of bananas peeled and sliced, again a handful of chopped ice, and sugar, repeating until the dish is as full as required. Pour upon the fruit a wine glass of white wine and a wine glass of tepid water in which you have dipped a lump of sugar that has absorbed 4 drops of almond extract, and another that has absorbed 3 drops of genuine eau de cologne. (In the right cologne you get the compressed extract of rosemary and lemon thyme.) Mix well and garnish top with whipped cream and a few preserved violets. You will not detect the cologne, as with the other ingredients it unites to produce a subtle but delicious flavor.