[Sca-cooks] Banana Bread from Isabella

[Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps]

This is my favorite banana bread recipe; nothing wrong with the Joy of 
Cooking one but I like this one better:
Banana Bread from the King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion
2 large eggs
1 cup (7 oz ) sugar
1/3 cup (2 3/8 oz) vegetable oil (we usually use canola)
1 cup mashed banana ( 2 to 3 very ripe, large bananas, 7 to 9 oz.)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
2 2/3 cups (11 3/8 ounces) unbleached all purpose flour
1 cup (8 ounces) yogurt, buttermilk, or sour cream
1 cup (4 ounces) chopped walnuts (optional)
Preaheat oven to 350 deg F. In a medium sized bowl, beat together the eggs, 
sugar, and oil. Blend in the mashed banana and vanilla. In a large bowl, 
whisk together and sift thoroughly the baking soda, baking powder, salt, 
cinnamon, nutmeg, and flour. Add all at once to the banana mixture. Mis 
quickly but thoroughly, then stir in the yougurt or buttermilk, mixing until 
_just_ combined. Pour the batter into a greased and floured 9x5 inch loaf 
pan. Bake for about an hour, until a cake tester ( I use a wooden skewer, a 
toothpick's too short) inserted in the center comes out clean.
My notes on this recipe: Make it in _two_ greased and floured loaf pans, one 
pan always overflows and makes a mess. My oven runs a little hot; it takes 
about 50 minutes in my oven, but yours may be different. The walnuts are 
optional, but give it a nice texture. Pecans would work too. You could 
probably put a little cardamom in it if you fancy. If you make it with 
buttermilk, get real cultured buttermilk, not the kind with half a hundred 
additives in it. One quart of buttermilk will make a batch of this and a 
batch of Alton Brown's buttermilk pancakes, now I'm getting hungry! Bon 
Appetit!
Cheers,
Isabella
PS ripe bananas have little brown freckles on them, very very ripe ones are 
all brown, this works great for overripe ones.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liz Wilson" <ewilson618 at tx.rr.com>
To: <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:18 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Banana Bread


>I am in need of a banana bread recipe (period or not period).  While I'm 
>sure
> that Africa and so forth had bananas of a sort, I don't know if they made
> bread from them.  However, I have three bananas that would be perfect
> for this endeavor.  I can check my church cookbooks and such but I know
> this list will have the perfect recipe.
>
> Christianna (newbie)
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