Banana bread recipe

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Hi Everyone,

Today's high was only 22, so it was a good day to bake. I defrosted some bananas and made banana cupcakes. There are probably a million different recipes for banana bread, but I always use a recipe that is in my Mennonite cookbook. So, here's my recipe for the cupcakes, please post yours so we can try it:

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 cup flour

1/2 teas. salt

1/2 teas baking soda dissolved in 1 Tb. warm water

1 teas baking powder

1 cup mashed bananas

1 teas. vanilla

1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Cream shortening and sugars, add eggs and vanilla and beat until smooth. Sift dry ingredients and add to mixture alternately with bananas and soda/water. Fill greased or paper lined muffin pans 2/3 full. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes. Makes 18.

-- Charleen in WNY (hhfarm@rochester.rr.com), March 10, 2002

Answers

We love banana bread, and your recipe sounds real good, I will try it, Just happened to have some over ripe bananas on hand. Thank you

-- Irene texas (tkorsborn@cs.com), March 11, 2002.

I have over ripe bananas in my kitchen right now----by evening they will be banana bread---thanks-----

-- Sonda in Ks. (sgbruce@birch.net), March 11, 2002.

How did you freeze your bananas and not have them look and taste absolutely GRODDY????

Would love to know cause I have banana plants here and the only way I've been able to preserve them is by drying - or cooking them up into a recipe and THEN freezing them.

I printed your recipe and can't wait to try it, thanks.

-- Michaela (flhomestead@hotmail.com), March 11, 2002.


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