Banana bread
Banana bread recipe in the christmas category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 3/4 cups unbleached flour
- 2 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup shortening
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 4 bananas, very ripe, mashed
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts, optional
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Beat shortening in mixer until creamy.
- Add sugar and eggs, continue beating at medium speed one minute.
- Add bananas to egg mixture. Mix until blended.
- Add flour mixture, beating at low speed only until blended.
- Turn into buttered loaf pan and bake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean.
- Notes: Substitute cream cheese for shortening. For spicy version, add 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon mace and 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg to flour mixture.