Ingredients:1 3/4 c. all-purpose flour
2/3 c. granulated sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 c. mashed ripe (thawed from frozen) bananas
1/3 c. butter
2 tbsp. milk
2 eggs
Optional: 1/4 c. chopped nuts
In a large bowl, combine 1 cup of the flour, the sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add mashed banana, butter, and milk. Mix with wooden spoon, add eggs and remaining flour, mix. Stir in nuts if desired.
Pour batter into a greased (w/butter or olive oil spray) loaf pan. Bake at 350oC for __min until a toothpick comes out of the center clean. Cool and remove from pan. Recipe says to wrap and store overnight before slicing. Yeah, right.
I am always hesitant to make 'quick' bread like this because they tend to be kind of sweet (maybe not sooo healthy), and they don't travel well to work or somewhere else where there are people to help you eat them. Let me rephrase, they do travel well, but they aren't as convenient as cookies. People have to figure out how to cut the bread or what to put it on... you get the idea. However, I do love to make banana bread because it is inevitable that over the course of a few months, I will have collected a couple of bananas in the freezer that aged too quickly to eat. So, in the interest of honoring Grampa's philosophy "waste not, want not" I make banana bread despite the drawbacks. And it's pretty tasty. :)
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