They weren’t kidding when they said this was the best banana bread recipe. It’s absolutely delicious, specially right out of the oven. Though I couldn’t tell you how it’d be cold as none of it survived to that stage.
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 4 bananas, mashed
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
Preheat oven to 350F
Grease a loaf pan
Sift the flour, baking soda and salt together into a medium-size bowl. Set aside
Cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer. Add the eggs and the bananas and mix well. Add the sifted flour and mix well. Add the vanilla extract and mix again until combined. Pour into the prepared loaf pan and cook for 1 hour. Test with a fork to make sure it’s dry inside.
Adapted from a recipe at Food.com
, at a library sale and now I have a plethora of cuisines from the Jewish diaspora to explore. I may skip those that are too close to the host cuisine for notice, but some of these Jewish cuisines do represent the merging of multiple traditions and they merit a real exploration. I’m currently working on dishes from the Baghdadi Jewish community in Calcutta and the Bene Israel in Bombay.
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