Bananas are great, aren’t they? It’s hard to think of a more uniquely versatile fruit. They come in their own self-contained packaging, they’re easy-open, you can eat them on the go without any utensils, and they’ve been the providers of slapstick humor in cartoons for a century.
But beyond all of that you can bake with them, make smoothies out of them, even turn them into a knockoff ice-cream that’s mainly made of fruit. This is possible partly because a ripe banana turns from a solid to a liquid under even the slightest pressure, like a four-year old child when interrogated about the whereabouts of a missing piece of chocolate cake while covered in frosting. Or a corporate executive at any senate inquiry ever.
Banana Bread
Servings 8
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 beaten eggs
- 2 cups sifted flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 5 tablespoons sour milk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 large bananas mashed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup nuts optional
Instructions
- Make sour milk: combine 5 tablespoons milk with 3/4 teaspoon lemon juice and microwave for 1 minute
- Thoroughly cream sugar and shortening
- Add eggs and mix well
- Sift together flour and salt
- Mix together sour milk, baking soda, mashed bananas, and vanilla extra
- Add wet and dry ingredients to mixer, alternating dry, wet, dry, wet, dry
- Add nuts if using
- Mix well then pour into prepared loaf pan
- Bake at 350 for 45 minutes for 3 small loaves or 1 hour for one large loaf
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