Banana Bread

[jmurray01]

I just baked a banana loaf tonight and thought I'd share the recipe here for anybody who would like to make it.

Ingredients:

200 Grams (7OZ) Lard/Butter (I prefer Lard)
200 Grams (7OZ) Self Rising Flour
230 Grams (8OZ) Sugar (I like it sweet but you could use less to your taste)
4 Medium Eggs (5 small or 3 large)
3 Past Ripe Bananas
2-3 Table-spoons of Cinnamon
2 Table-spoons of milk

Method:

1. Mix lard/butter with sugar until it binds
2. Add eggs and flour (one egg to two spoons of flour at a time, sifted)
3. Add milk
4. Add cinnamon
5. Add "mashed" bananas, but don't mash them too much or you will end up with a tough cake
6. Grease a small-medium baking tin and pour mixture in
7. Bake at 180*C/356*F for approximately 30 minutes or until golden and a knife comes out clean when poked

This is the part where I would post a picture of my loaf, but it is already half eaten!! I will take a photograph nonetheless and add it tomorrow morning (it's getting late here in Scotland and I'm "beat").

Enjoy.

 

[Bird]

Banana bread, or banana cake? I've always liked banana cake, but we've never made any ourselves. Your recipe sounds good, but we never keep "self rising" flour on hand; just keep general purpose flour and add baking powder when needed, but I'm not sure now much to use to substitute for the self rising flour.

And the reason we never have self rising flour . . . . well, some 47-48 years ago, one day when we weren't much more than newlyweds and were visiting my parents, my mother had a package of flour sitting on the table and told my wife that she bought it by mistake and asked my wife if she could use it. My wife didn't understand way back then but took that little bag of flour. And then she used it to make a pie crust, and I'm sure you can guess what happened. I don't remember whether it was a cherry pie or an apple pie, but the crust rose and pushed the filling out into the bottom of the oven. Now we know why, but my wife has refused to even try to make a pie crust ever since. Either I make it, or she buys ready made, but at least she never buys self rising flour.

 

[farmgirl19]

Banana Bread

2 c sugar
1 c butter
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
4 eggs
6 ripe bananas, mashed
2 1/2 c flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Cream together the sugar, butter and vanilla, until fluffy.

Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat well after each addition.

Gradually stir int eh bananas

Sift together the dry ingredients. Add to the banana mixture, carefully folding in. Do not overmix.

Preheat oven to 350*

Loghly greasse 2 loaf pans.

Pour the batter into the pans and bake for 45-60 minutes.

Let cool 10 minutes, then remove from the pans and place on a cooling rack.

When cool, wrap, and label. May be frozen up to 2 months.

 

[tcreeley]

My mother used to cook a good deal- and when I wasn't fooling around or out in the barn I'd get hooked along with my sister and learned to cook some. Back then if you wanted something sweet- you'd better talk someone into making it, or doing it yourself. My brother and I got pretty good at fudge- never seen a recipe for it- just do it.
My wife with her Irish background and grandmothers got into banana breads...I always wondered why she wasted the time when she could be doing cream puffs or chocolate cream pies that I dreamed of! But I always enjoyed what she cooked.
Cooking is fun- except for buttering a pan and watching the clock (don't bother any more)!

 

[TomSeller]

This time of year we also need some good zucchini bread recipes. Cows won't even eat the extras

 

[creekbend]

Those are all good recipes. I totally agree with using "Over Ripe" Bananas.

 

[farmgirl19]

This time of year we also need some good zucchini bread recipes. Cows won't even eat the extras

I thought I had already posted the Zucchini Bread recipe, but can't remember which thread. So, at the risk of being called a "excessive poster", here it is again. And the loaves can be frozen for up to 4 months! Enjoy!

Zucchini Bread

3 eggs
1 c Wesson oil (or other good quality vegetable oil)
2 tsp Vanilla
1 c sugar
1 c brown sugar
2 c grated unpeeled zucchini
3 c flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
3 tsp cinnamon
1 c finely chopped walnuts

Beat eggs until fluffy. Add sugars and vanilla and beat. Add oil and beat. Gradually add dry ingredients. Fold in zucchini and beat. Stir in nuts. Bake at 350* in 2 greased and floured loaf pans, for 1 hour.

Farmgirl note: Due to oven differences, I usually bake for 55 minutes, then use a toothpick to test if it is done. Insert a toothpick into the top of the loaf, and then remove. If toothpick comes out clean, bread is done. If not, let bake for another 5 minutes!

 

[royabbott123]

Thanks for the awesome recipe,Love it!

 

[tcreeley]

I have split oversized zucchinis lengthwise and given them to the chickens who peck out the inside down to the skin.

 

[jerrybob]

I thought I had already posted the Zucchini Bread recipe, but can't remember which thread. So, at the risk of being called a "excessive poster", here it is again. And the loaves can be frozen for up to 4 months! Enjoy!

Zucchini Bread

3 eggs
1 c Wesson oil (or other good quality vegetable oil)
2 tsp Vanilla
1 c sugar
1 c brown sugar
2 c grated unpeeled zucchini
3 c flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
3 tsp cinnamon
1 c finely chopped walnuts

Beat eggs until fluffy. Add sugars and vanilla and beat. Add oil and beat. Gradually add dry ingredients. Fold in zucchini and beat. Stir in nuts. Bake at 350* in 2 greased and floured loaf pans, for 1 hour.

Farmgirl note: Due to oven differences, I usually bake for 55 minutes, then use a toothpick to test if it is done. Insert a toothpick into the top of the loaf, and then remove. If toothpick comes out clean, bread is done. If not, let bake for another 5 minutes!

Great stuff.....my wife just made 4 loafs..........goes great with a cup of coffee!!:thumbsup:

 

[farmgirl19]

Here is another note, about Banana Bread. If you have bananas that are getting too ripe, peel them and freeze them, and they are perfect when thawed to make the banana bread. Doesn't matter if they turn brown. It takes 6 bananas to make the 2 loaves of bread, if using my recipe. I sometimes buy the overripes at the store on markdown and freeze them 6 to a bag, or will use the last one or two from a bunch I bought as greener, and peel and place them in a bag in the freezer. When I have done this and have 6 in the bag, then they will be ready for the next time that I am baking. Comes in handy to have them in the freezer like that, during the holidays, and lets me take advantage of not wasting anything, and also buying on markdown.

I can eat like a Queen, and feed others like royalty too, but can do it very affordably.

 

[MacLawn]

I ain't nary cook, but I am real good at eatin'. I saw on TV that lard is a heap better for ye than all this margarine artificial mess they mixed up in some NYC lab.

I'll have to show me CFO these recipes. She can mess up a kitchen real good with good food.

 

[jinman]

When I grew up, my mom used to make banana "cake." I never heard it called banana "bread" until much later in life. I suppose it may have been called banana bread because it was baked in a loaf pan. My wife always adds chopped pecans to hers. I don't care what it's called, it is delicious when warmed with a dollop of butter and a hot fresh cup of coffee. Pound cake also makes an acceptable substitution.:licking:

 

[jinman]

FG, freeze those ripe bananas, then dip them in hot fudge for a delectable bit of indiscrete pleasure. Fudge frozen banana on a stick is yummy.