First you will need to collect your ingredients. You will need flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, eggs, butter or margarine, vanilla, milk, lemon juice and bananas. I will share the exact ingredients at the end of this post.
One of the ingredients listed is sour milk. I do this first, measuring my milk into the measuring cup and adding a few drops of lemon juice. You will also need 3 mixing bowls. One for wet ingredients, one for dry ingredients and one for mashing bananas.
Next measure out your dry ingredients. Flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. The actual recipe calls for a lot of sifting. I don't do that. I have wondered over the years if all the extra steps in this recipe were to teach us all the techniques back in high school.
Now you will dump your measuring cup of sour milk into the large mixing bowl and mix it into the wet ingredients.
When you add the sour milk your batter will get kind of a lumpy look like it is separating. This is ok.
The next step is to alternate adding your bananas and flour mixture to the batter and only stirring as much as you need to. You don't want to over beat. I'm not super careful with this. I usually add 1/2 the bananas and then 1/2 the flour and repeat.
When your batter is all mixed up, pour into greased loaf pans. I fill about 2/3 full. Bake at 350 degrees until done and lightly browned.
Banana Bread
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2 cups sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sour milk (add a few drops lemon juice to fresh milk to make it sour.)
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 bananas
Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
In a separate bowl mix butter, sugar, egg and vanilla. Beat until well mixed. Add milk and mix.
Mash bananas well and have them ready to add to the butter sugar mixture alternating with the flour. Stir only as much as necessary.
Pour mixture into a well greased pan and bake for 30-35 minutes. Remove from pan while still warm. Bread can be frozen to be served at a future date.
6 comments:
Thank you Marlene, they look so yummy. YUMMY. After all this banana talk yesterday I made a banana bread myself. The first time ever it turned into super glue.... No idea what went wrong....this super glue however tastes delicious
Banana bread is one of my favorites, I'm off to make it now...I'll let you know how it goes! :) Thanks Marlene!
Okaaaay, a few hours later (had to run to the store for sugar!) we're eating it! Even my picky 13 year old likes it!!!! That says a lot! :)
I like that picture of your stained recipe page almost as much as I like the pictures of your friendly owl :-)
Dag nab it. I JUST (about forty minutes ago) threw out some old bananas. I kept thinking "I should put this in some bread..." but then time got away from me.
I have to give this recipe a try! Now if only the fresh bananas I have will brown...
That is so funny, Marlene. My banana bread recipe looks just like yours.
http://www.lorislolz.org/2010/05/banana-bread.html
I'll have to try your recipe, it looks delicious.
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