banana bread

[quietann]

Does anyone out there have a good recipe for banana bread? Through serious miscommunication, Ben got me twice as many bananas for the rats as I needed, and I now have 2 1/2 bunches of bananas that either need to be tossed within a day or two, or turned into banana bread. I love the stuff, but don't have a good recipe.

"Good" means --

can be made with or without nuts
"quick" i.e. non-yeast
uses a large amount of bananas!

If I get a good recipe, I'll have banana bread to give away this weekend.

thanks!

Comments

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

you can throw ripe to overripe bananas as is into the freezer and use when needed or time is available. I always end up throwing one out of a bunch whenever we get them. Three tends to be enough for any recipe. Take them out of the freezer and let defrost in a bowl and it is squishy and good to go.

[sarahshevett.livejournal.com]

Frozen bananas run through a juicer makes the creamiest yummy ice cream like dessert

[ratgrl.livejournal.com]

2 1/4 c. flour
2.5t. baking powder
1/2t baking soda
1/2t. salt
(mix together)

1/2c. margarine
1c. sugar
(cream then mix in...)
2 eggs
1t. vanilla

1c. mashed bananas
1 1/4 c. sour milk (just add a dash of vinegar)

add alternately, starting and ending with dry. Dry in 1/3s, wet in 1/2s

bake at 375 – 20 min. muffins
50 min. loaf

That's the abbreviated version :) That's mom's recipe for nana bread. Soooo gooood. If you want nuts just aout 1/2 to 3/4 of a cup :)

[quietann.livejournal.com]

thanks!

would this work with buttermilk?

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

It's not my recipe (I make banana bread the way Xiphias does) but since soured milk (milk + vinegar or lemon juice) is often a substitute for buttermilk to begin with, I would definetely try it with buttermilk.

[(Anonymous)]

my favorite comes right out of the betty crocker cookbook. makes yummy banana bread, takes 3-4 bananas.

also see http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/search/search_results.aspx?searchText=banana%2bbread

--desert_born, posting from work

[donnad.livejournal.com]

My Chocolate Banana Bread recipe

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I vouch for the yum factor of this recipe, having used it a few times from my handy Baitcon Cookbook. :)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Banana bread has recipes?!?

Um, my recipe is, "Put a bunch of bananas in my KitchenAid Mixer (all praise the KitchenAid!). And a stick of softened butter. Put some eggs in, maybe. And some flour, and some baking soda. And then, um, some stuff. Like, whatever it is that you feel like. Spices maybe, a dash of salt. . . Pour into a loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for, um, some time. Maybe half an hour, maybe an hour, I dunno."

I'm not a very organized cook. . .

[quietann.livejournal.com]

Well, I have the KitchenAid anyway, and will definitely use it... but seriously, unless it's something I make all the time, I prefer to at least start with a recipe. (of course, sometimes things go wrong, as when the lovely pound cake recipe in the Boston Globe made a BRICK cake...)

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

You know what they say, in for a pound, in for a brick.

[fangirl715.livejournal.com]

Here's my favorite recipe, straight from The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving (yes, really, no shit...it was a gift from some lawyers I worked w/in Georgia who knew me too well...):

Banana Soul Bread (Quote from book: "It's called "soul bread" because you use black bananas.")

Use 3 overripe mashed bananas, 1/2 cup butter or margarine (that'd be 1 stick), 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon baking soda, and 2 cups flour. Mix all ingredients well and baked in a well-greased pan for about 45 minutes at 300 degrees F, or until a straw/bamboo skewer comes away just barely dry (in other words, don't overbake it). Now, they won't tell you this, but I will: when the batter is in the pan, sift 1-2 tablespoons over sugar over it before you shove it in the oven, for a nice finish on the top; even better, add a cup or so of chocolate chips to the batter, dump it in the pan, and then do the sugar-sifting.

(Shameless namedropping alert: I brought a loaf of this particular variation to a Kristin Hersh show a few years back, and her then-9-year-old son Ryder proclaimed it "the best stuff EVER", according to his mom; so should you ever need to get on the good side of a bunch of pre-pubescent boys, this stuff'll do it. ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

I have a banana bread recipe that fits the bill, but I've always just frozen the bananas (in the skin, or peel). When I want to make the bread, I bring them out a day beforehand and let them thaw--they then mash up easily.

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

Well, this only uses 3 per loaf, but here goes:

Banana Bread
3 ripe bananas
4Tbsp flax seeds
1 cup water
2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2-3/4 cups sugar or succanat (or corresponding amt of other sweetener)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup chopped walnuts (slivered almonds are good, too)

Preheat oven to 350.

Mash the bananas up. Blend the flax seeds and water in a food processor or blender for about 3-4 minutes, until they reach the consistency of beaten egg whites. Blend with bananas in a large mixing bowl.

Slowly blend in the remaining ingredients. When you get to the walnuts, stir in slowly and thoroughly. Pour batter into a loaf pan sprayed with non-stick spray or a little olive oil. Bake at 350 for 45 min to one hour. Test for doneness with a knife in the center. If it comes out crumbs instead of batter, it's ready. Cool (if you can wait) and eat. :)

This also makes a good pumpkin bread if you substitute a can of pureed pumpkin for the bananas and add 1/2 tsp each of cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice.

[badmagic.livejournal.com]

Hi. vvalkyri said that you were looking for a recipe for banana bread, and she thinks my version is particularly tasty, so here 'tis:

Joe's "I'm too busy to cook" banana bread

Preheat oven to 350. Mash a stick of margarine together with a cup of sugar. Mix two eggs into the resultant mess, and then mash two or three bananas into that. Answer ringing phone. Stir two cups of Bisquick or other self-rising floury stuff into the mixture. Complain that oven takes forever to heat. After nearly dropping the phone into the batter, tell person on other end of line you'll call her back later. Throw a handful of something interesting into batter: nuts are good, raisins are better, dried cranberries better yet. Pour into well-greased bread pan. Put into oven to bake for one hour. Check e-mail. Realize that bread has been in oven for an hour and a quarter. Hurriedly remove bread from oven. Decide it looks pretty good after all. Eat first slice.