Banana Bread

My experience with banana bread or banana cake recipes is that there's a
trade-off. The ones the most intense banana flavor tend to be moist,
dense, and pudding-like, not quite making it as a cake. The ones that
have the nicest, richest, cakiest crumb, lack banana. For the best
compromises, I like the recipe in Silver Palate for a banana cake that
succeeds as a cake and is wonderful with cream cheese icing, and I like
the Joy of Cooking recipe for going a little stronger on the bananas. I
give poor marks to the Laurel's Kitchen recipe for being too dense and
not cakey enough.

--Lia

kilikini said:

I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was wondering which
recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite? We picked up 5 bunches
of over-ripe bananas today at the produce market for $.75 total. I'm
wanting banana bread and I can't find my mom's recipe.

Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are out there?
And how different they all are?

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on, please.

kili

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Quoted message said:

I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was wondering

which

Quoted message said:

recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite? We picked up 5

bunches

Quoted message said:

of over-ripe bananas today at the produce market for $.75 total. I'm
wanting banana bread and I can't find my mom's recipe.

Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are out

there?

Quoted message said:

And how different they all are?

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on, please.

kili

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I love this recipe for Banana Bread. I have tested many different recipes
and this has always been my favorite. I think it is the sour milk in it
that makes it so good.

My Favorite Banana Bread Recipe

Ingredients

1 Cup White Sugar

½ cup Crisco oil or Canola Oil

2 Eggs

1 Tablespoon Sour Milk (milk with a little vinegar in will do)

½ Teaspoon Salt

1 Teaspoon Baking Soda

3 or 4 Very Ripe Bananas

1 Teaspoon Vanilla

2 Cups Flour

½ Chopped Walnuts (Optional

Directions

Cream the sugar and shortening well. Add the eggs and beat together. Mix
the sour milk and baking soda together and add to egg mixture. Mix well.
Add the salt, mashed bananas and walnuts. Before adding the bananas, mash
them with a potato masher; not a beater. Add the flour and mix only to
moisten; do not beat.

Put batter into a greased loaf pan and let set for 15 minutes before you
bake. Put in a 375 degree oven and bake for about one hour. It will have
a crack down through the middle and be nice and brown when it is done. Test
for doneness by inserting a toothpick in the center. If it comes out dry
and clean then it is done. If it comes out with some batter on it let it
bake a little longer. Testing is important, as it is hard to tell when it
is finished baking.

pfoley said:

"kilikini" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was
wondering which recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite?
We picked up 5 bunches of over-ripe bananas today at the produce
market for $.75 total. I'm wanting banana bread and I can't find my
mom's recipe.

Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are
out there? And how different they all are?

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on,
please.

kili

=================
I love this recipe for Banana Bread. I have tested many different
recipes and this has always been my favorite. I think it is the sour
milk in it that makes it so good.

My Favorite Banana Bread Recipe

Ingredients

1 Cup White Sugar

½ cup Crisco oil or Canola Oil

2 Eggs

1 Tablespoon Sour Milk (milk with a little vinegar in will do)

½ Teaspoon Salt

1 Teaspoon Baking Soda

3 or 4 Very Ripe Bananas

1 Teaspoon Vanilla

2 Cups Flour

½ Chopped Walnuts (Optional

Directions

Cream the sugar and shortening well. Add the eggs and beat together.
Mix the sour milk and baking soda together and add to egg mixture.
Mix well. Add the salt, mashed bananas and walnuts. Before adding
the bananas, mash them with a potato masher; not a beater. Add the
flour and mix only to moisten; do not beat.

Put batter into a greased loaf pan and let set for 15 minutes before
you bake. Put in a 375 degree oven and bake for about one hour. It
will have a crack down through the middle and be nice and brown when
it is done. Test for doneness by inserting a toothpick in the
center. If it comes out dry and clean then it is done. If it comes
out with some batter on it let it bake a little longer. Testing is
important, as it is hard to tell when it is finished baking.

Thanks for the recipe! I'm going to keep a file called banana bread and log
each and every recipe that comes in. Slowly, I'm going to try them all and
critique them, I swear. This one sounds really moist.

kili

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Quoted message said:

I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was wondering

which

Quoted message said:

recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite? We picked up 5

bunches

Quoted message said:

of over-ripe bananas today at the produce market for $.75 total. I'm
wanting banana bread and I can't find my mom's recipe.

Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are out

there?

Quoted message said:

And how different they all are?

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on, please.

I've always had the best luck with recipes that use buttermilk. And I
always use bananas that are so ripe they are more like a sticky goop than a
banana. The skins are completely black. I did this trick over the
holidays: I took some banana liqueur and drizzled a nice half-ounce onto
each loaf. Then I wrapped them in plastic wrap and a couple days later they
were incredibly good. Very moist and full of flavor. OK, maybe it was a
crutch, but it sure tasted good.

Paul

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"kilikini" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was wondering

which

Quoted message said:

recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite? We picked up 5

bunches

Quoted message said:

of over-ripe bananas today at the produce market for $.75 total. I'm
wanting banana bread and I can't find my mom's recipe.

Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are out

there?

Quoted message said:

And how different they all are?

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on, please.

I've always had the best luck with recipes that use buttermilk. And I
always use bananas that are so ripe they are more like a sticky goop than

a

Quoted message said:

banana. The skins are completely black. I did this trick over the
holidays: I took some banana liqueur and drizzled a nice half-ounce onto
each loaf. Then I wrapped them in plastic wrap and a couple days later

they

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were incredibly good. Very moist and full of flavor. OK, maybe it was a
crutch, but it sure tasted good.

One more trick, while the loaves are cooling but still warm, rub them with
some butter and let it melt in. Then sprinkle a touch of powdered sugar
onto them. The sugar will melt but it will form a nice sweet layer on top
that really complements the bread.

Paul

Paul M. Cook said:

"kilikini" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was
wondering which recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite?
We picked up 5 bunches of over-ripe bananas today at the produce
market for $.75 total. I'm wanting banana bread and I can't find my
mom's recipe.

Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are
out there? And how different they all are?

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on,
please.

I've always had the best luck with recipes that use buttermilk. And I
always use bananas that are so ripe they are more like a sticky goop
than a banana. The skins are completely black. I did this trick
over the holidays: I took some banana liqueur and drizzled a nice
half-ounce onto each loaf. Then I wrapped them in plastic wrap and a
couple days later they were incredibly good. Very moist and full of
flavor. OK, maybe it was a crutch, but it sure tasted good.

Paul

LOL, I'll have to remember that! Thanks, Paul. :~)

kili

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Quoted message said:

"kilikini" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was
wondering which recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite?
We picked up 5 bunches of over-ripe bananas today at the produce
market for $.75 total. I'm wanting banana bread and I can't find
my mom's recipe.

Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are
out there? And how different they all are?

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on,
please.

I've always had the best luck with recipes that use buttermilk. And
I always use bananas that are so ripe they are more like a sticky
goop than a banana. The skins are completely black. I did this
trick over the holidays: I took some banana liqueur and drizzled a
nice half-ounce onto each loaf. Then I wrapped them in plastic wrap
and a couple days later they were incredibly good. Very moist and
full of flavor. OK, maybe it was a crutch, but it sure tasted good.

One more trick, while the loaves are cooling but still warm, rub
them with some butter and let it melt in. Then sprinkle a touch of
powdered sugar onto them. The sugar will melt but it will form a
nice sweet layer on top that really complements the bread.

Paul

Aha! I've never heard of this one. Sounds like a good tip! Thanks.

kili

kilikini said:

I want to hear your favorites

Anyone who submits...will INSIST their's is the best.

Close your eyes and put your finger on a google search. It will be
the best.

Oh....and put those extra bananas in the freezer. They will turn
black but boy, they are good in a month or so after you try all the
recipes that are recommended.

Paul M. Cook said:

One more trick, while the loaves are cooling but still warm, rub them with
some butter and let it melt in.

My favorite "trick" is to prepare pans but instead of dusting with
flour, dust the pans with granulated sugar. Kind of makes a crispy
crust.

"kilikini" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was wondering
which
recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite? We picked up 5
bunches
of over-ripe bananas today at the produce market for $.75 total. I'm
wanting banana bread and I can't find my mom's recipe.

Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are out
there?
And how different they all are?

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on, please.

kili

Here's my family's favorite recipe, adapted from my Better Homes & Gardens
New Cookbook. This makes a very dense, moist bread; topped with some
whipped cream cheese it's heavenly!

Banana Coffee Bread

1/4 cup vegetable oil (I use extra light olive oil)
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 or 3 ripe medium bananas, mashed (about 1 cup, but a little extra won't
necessitate any recipe adjustments)
1 1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 325°F. Cream oil and sugar until well blended. Add eggs
and beat well. Stir in banana. Sift together dry ingredients and add to
banana mixture; mix well. Spray 9"x5"x3" loaf pan with non-stick spray;
pour in mixture. Bake 40-50 minutes, or until tester inserted in center
comes out clean.

I've also done these in disposable foil mini-pans to give as little holiday
gifts. Bake the mini-pans for about 35 minutes at 325°F.

"kilikini" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was wondering
which
recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite? We picked up 5
bunches
of over-ripe bananas today at the produce market for $.75 total. I'm
wanting banana bread and I can't find my mom's recipe.

Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are out
there?
And how different they all are?

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on, please.

kili

-= Exported from BigOven =-

My Favorite Banana Bread

Recipe By:
Serving Size: 2
Cuisine:
Main Ingredient:
Categories: Family

-= Ingredients =-
1 1/2 c Flour
1/2 ts Baking soda
1 1/2 ts Baking powder
1 ts Salt
2 ts Orange rind ; grated
2 Egg
1/4 c Oil
1 c Bananas
1/2 c Milk
1 c Sugar

-= Instructions =-
Sift first 5 ingredients, combine remaining ingredients, stir into dry
mix, bake at 350 for 50 minutes in a greased lined loaf pan. From : Helen
Peagram
Note: Nuts can be added.

** This recipe can be pasted into BigOven without retyping. **
** Easy recipe software. Try it free at: http://www.bigoven.com **

--
Helen
in
FERGUS/HARLINGEN

Banana Bread

1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 1/3 cups mashed bananas (6-8 bananas)
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan. In
a large bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and
mashed bananas until well blended. Add the flour, baking soda and salt,
and stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. Bake in
preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into
center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10
minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:13:25 -0400, Ward Abbott <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

kilikini said:

I want to hear your favorites

Anyone who submits...will INSIST their's is the best.

Close your eyes and put your finger on a google search. It will be
the best.

Oh....and put those extra bananas in the freezer. They will turn
black but boy, they are good in a month or so after you try all the
recipes that are recommended.

I'm not kili, nor do I play her on t.v.
That's a great idea Ward. I freeze bananas also and use them frozen
when making smoothies.

Koko
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updated 6/17

"There is no love more sincere than the love of food"
George Bernard Shaw

kilikini said:

I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was wondering which
recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite? We picked up 5 bunches
of over-ripe bananas today at the produce market for $.75 total. I'm
wanting banana bread and I can't find my mom's recipe.

Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are out there?
And how different they all are?

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on, please.

kili

I know it's not banana bread, but how about some banana ice cream with
some of your find?

We had a baked alaska last night made with banana ice cream that was
really yummy. There were sliced bananas arranged on the plate that were
a bit caramelized too.

I have no recipe to offer on either count, sorry. I think I've used the
recipe in my Betty Crocker cookbook for banana bread most often.

--
Queenie

*** Be the change you wish to see in the world ***

Karen in NC said:

"kilikini" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was wondering
which
recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite? We picked up 5
bunches
of over-ripe bananas today at the produce market for $.75 total. I'm
wanting banana bread and I can't find my mom's recipe.

Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are out
there?
And how different they all are?

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on,
please.

kili

Here's my family's favorite recipe, adapted from my Better Homes &
Gardens New Cookbook. This makes a very dense, moist bread; topped
with some whipped cream cheese it's heavenly!

Banana Coffee Bread

1/4 cup vegetable oil (I use extra light olive oil)
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 or 3 ripe medium bananas, mashed (about 1 cup, but a little extra
won't necessitate any recipe adjustments)
1 1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 325°F. Cream oil and sugar until well blended. Add
eggs and beat well. Stir in banana. Sift together dry ingredients
and add to banana mixture; mix well. Spray 9"x5"x3" loaf pan with
non-stick spray; pour in mixture. Bake 40-50 minutes, or until
tester inserted in center comes out clean.

I've also done these in disposable foil mini-pans to give as little
holiday gifts. Bake the mini-pans for about 35 minutes at 325°F.

Thanks, Karen!

kili

Becca said:

Banana Bread

1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 1/3 cups mashed bananas (6-8 bananas)
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
In a large bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs
and mashed bananas until well blended. Add the flour, baking soda and
salt, and stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick
inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in
pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

Thanks, Becca!

kili

MOMPEAGRAM said:

"kilikini" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was wondering
which
recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite? We picked up 5
bunches
of over-ripe bananas today at the produce market for $.75 total. I'm
wanting banana bread and I can't find my mom's recipe.

Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are out
there?
And how different they all are?

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on,
please.

kili

-= Exported from BigOven =-

My Favorite Banana Bread

Recipe By:
Serving Size: 2
Cuisine:
Main Ingredient:
Categories: Family

-= Ingredients =-
1 1/2 c Flour
1/2 ts Baking soda
1 1/2 ts Baking powder
1 ts Salt
2 ts Orange rind ; grated
2 Egg
1/4 c Oil
1 c Bananas
1/2 c Milk
1 c Sugar

-= Instructions =-
Sift first 5 ingredients, combine remaining ingredients, stir into
dry mix, bake at 350 for 50 minutes in a greased lined loaf pan. From
: Helen Peagram
Note: Nuts can be added.

** This recipe can be pasted into BigOven without retyping. **
** Easy recipe software. Try it free at: http://www.bigoven.com **

Thanks, Mom!

kili

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:40:39 -0700, Koko magnanimously proffered:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Oh....and put those extra bananas in the freezer. They will turn
black but boy, they are good in a month or so after you try all the
recipes that are recommended.

I'm not kili, nor do I play her on t.v.
That's a great idea Ward. I freeze bananas also and use them frozen
when making smoothies.

Koko

Freeze bananas with their skins removed and they won't turn black
unless they're super ripe.

I opened the first smoothie & juice bar in New Zealand in 1975
(Sunshine Juicebar in Gisborne) and the core ingredients for the
smoothies were bananas, milk and honey.

My partner would go down to the markets and buy the bananas nobody
else wanted and we'd skin them, put them in tupperware-type boxes
and/or ziplock bags and freeze. Then we'd take out a few dozen at a
time and let them thaw a little - just enough for the outside to
become soft - and use them to make smoothies.

That was when milk was around 4 cents a bottle and was real milk and
not reconstituted [censored] we get today.

To the basic milk, banana & honey, I'd add real vanilla extract or
carob powder or fruit, etc for flavouring. Our top of the line
Smoothie was the "Sunshine Superman" which had two raw eggs, protein
powder, yeast, flavouring ... with instant coffee optional. You'd be
surprised how well it sold to people doing hard physical work and
surfers.

--

una cerveza mas por favor ...

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Kili said:

I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on, please.

James Beard's Banana Bread 1 loaf

2 c. sifted all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c. butter
1 c. granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mashed very ripe bananas (about 2)
1/2 c. milk
1 tsp. lemon juice or vinegar
1/2 c. chopped nuts

Sift first three ingredients together. Cream the butter and
gradually
add the sugar. Mix well. Add eggs one at a time, then bananas and
mix
thoroughly. Combine milk and lemon juice which will curdle a bit.

Slowly and alternately fold in the flour and milk mixtures, beginning
and ending with the dry ingredients. Mix well after each addition.
Stir int he nuts, then pour the batter into a lavishly buttered 9x5
inch
pan and bake in a preheated 350deg. oven for one hour or until the
brad
springs back when lightly touched in the center.

This is the second recipe for banana bread in his "Beard on Bread"
cookbook and he comments "This is another banana bread which I find
lighter and perhaps more flavorful than the previous one, although
both
are extremely interesting breads."

gloria p