Banana bread is a sweet-tasting bread which is cooked into loaves made from mashed bananas. It is a quick bread that utilizes baking soda to help it rise or acts a leavening agent for the bread. Many cooks like to make variations in their banana bread recipe by adding nuts or raisins or other ingredients. It is a simple recipe that does not need complex ingredients and does not even need an electric beater if you do not have one.

Banana bread was popularized in mid 1900’s when baking soda was also popularized. In some Asian countries, banana bread is a regular food and can also be served as an alternative to white bread.

Ingredients:

1 cup butter for shortening
5 over-ripe bananas, mashed well
2 ½ cups sugar
4 eggs
¾ cup buttermilk
3 cups flour
1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla

For this banana bread recipe, combine shortening, bananas and sugar. Slowly add eggs, one at a time and beat well. Sift baking soda, flour and salt together. Alternately add the other dry ingredients along with the buttermilk to the batter mixture. Add the vanilla and nuts and mix the banana bread recipe mixture well.

You will need two greased loaf pans for the entire banana bread recipe mixture. Do not fill to the top since the banana bread recipe will rise, you might like to give at least an inch space from the rim of the loaf pans. Bake the mixture for seventy to eighty minutes at 325 degrees or until a toothpick comes out clean from the bread.

This banana bread recipe does not call for any complicated procedure to make it and it taste great as well. Children love the sweet taste and so do adults. It can also keep for several days which make it worth cooking. It is also a great way of making use of overripe bananas that almost everybody hates to eat.

Banana bread is also a nutritious alternative to white bread and can also be made with wheat bread or whole grain. There are many variations to the traditional banana bread but the more effective banana bread recipe calls for overripe bananas. If you do not use overripe bananas, the tendency is that the top of the banana bread loaf will remain moist and you will have a hard time distinguishing if it is already done or not.

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by houyan