What's banana bread?

Answer 1

so many different recipes to choose from...
here's one:

INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup butter, melted
3 bananas, mashed

DIRECTIONS:
Grease and flour two 7x3 inch loaf pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In one bowl, whisk together flour, soda, salt, and sugar. Mix in slightly beaten eggs, melted butter, and mashed bananas. Stir in nuts if desired. Pour into prepared pans.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour, or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

http://bread.allrecipes.com/az/BananaBread.asp

Answer 2

Why compromise the banana flavor? This banana bread is moist and delicious with loads of banana flavor! Friends and family love my recipe and say it's by far the best! It's wonderful toasted!! Enjoy!"
Original recipe yield: 1 - 9x5 inch loaf.

Prep Time:
15 Minutes
Cook Time:
1 Hour 5 Minutes
Ready In:
1 Hour 20 Minutes
Servings:
12 (change)

INGREDIENTS:

* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 cup butter
* 3/4 cup brown sugar
* 2 eggs, beaten
* 2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

Answer 3

Just the words BANANA BREAD makes me want to have it!

It's this wonderful, flavorful taste of bananas, sugar, walnuts that will have you wanting more! Light brown in color with a crack at the top of the crust (if it bakes right...) This is one bread that begs for a pat or two of butter. YUMMY! It's the best way in the world to use up very ripe bananas....

All these answers are soooo good! I can only add my 2 cents. Yes. It's considered a quick bread so it can be easy to make, but with any baking, you have to follow the directions exactly.

Banana Bread
Recipe is from the Best Loved Foods of Christmas, Pillsbury, undated booklet (the booklet was from the 1960's and one of the best holiday baking booklet out there!)

INGREDIENTS

2 cups Pillsbury's best all purpose flour*
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs -- unbeaten
1 cup (OVER- RIPE) bananas mashed
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon lemon juice or vinegar
1/2 cup Walnuts chopped

DIRECTIONS
Sift together flour, soda, and salt. Cream butter. Gradually add sugar, creaming well. Add eggs and bananas. Blend thoroughly. Combine milk with either lemon juice or vinegar. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Blend well after each addition. With electric mixer use a low speed. Stir in nuts, chopped.

Turn batter into 9 x 5 x 3-inch pan, well-greased on the bottom. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) 60 to 70 minutes. (Make sure the oven is pre-heated.)

*Pillsbury's Best Self-Rising Flour is not recommended for use in this recipe.

Please save a piece for me!

Answer 4

Banana bread is a sweet, cakelike bread which contains mashed bananas. Banana bread is a quick bread which typically uses baking soda as the leavening agent instead of yeast. Rather than dough, the bread is baked from thick batter, which does not require kneading. Banana bread is usually baked in a rectangular loaf pan.

Answer 5

Banana Nut Bread with Buttermilk

Serving Size: 12

Ingredients:
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method


Cooking Directions:
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3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 1/2 cups granulated white sugar
1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (3 medium bananas)
2 eggs -- well beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
OR
1/2 cup milk -- soured
AND
1 teaspoon vinegar
3/4 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 325?F. Cream butter and sugar together thoroughly.

Blend in bananas, eggs and vanilla. Sift flour, baking soda and salt
together. Add to banana mixture, alternating with buttermilk and mixing
thoroughly after each addition. Add nuts and gently mix. Pour batter into
greased and floured loaf pan. Bake for 1 1/4 hours, or until done.

Answer 6

Its normally called Banana bread, but normally its a banana loaf. Its made in a loaf pan, with ripe banana's, flour, eggs, oil, nuts, cinnimon, nutmeg and vanilla. Baked in an oven for 1 hour, and served with butter. You can get many recipes for banana bread on www.allrecipes.com

Answer 7

A quick bread (which means no yeast or rising) made with the usual flour, oil sugar, eggs and mashed bananas. Some people add walnuts too, it's delicious! I also like zucchini bread!! YUM!

Answer 8

Oh man its good when its done right.

Its a sweet, very moist, cake type bread that is made with atleast 3 ripe banana's and usually has some walnuts.

Answer 9

A sweet bread made with bananas. It usually contains nuts and various spices like cinnamon.

Answer 10

Banana brd is bread made with 1 stick oleo,1 egg,1 1'2 c flour, 1/2 tsp salt,1c suguar,3/4 tsp baking soda,1tbsp baking powder, 3 large bananas smasked-cream buuter and sugar until light and fluffy,beat in egg,blend in sifted dry ingredients and mashed bananas, pour into greased and flour loaf pan. bake at 350 for 1 hr- optional to and pecans or walnuts- YUMMY!Bakers