MEMBER RECIPE
Best Banana Bread Recipe
By djthomas
This bread has been in my family for over 50 years and I always get rave reviews when I make it. Wrapping it in plastic wrap when it’s still warm will keep it nice and moist (even when frozen and thawed). The butter, sour milk, and ripe bananas are essential to the moistness and give it a nice dark color. My neighbors and kids like it when I add the chocolate chips and walnuts.
INGREDIENTS
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons sour milk (see below)
- 1 tablespoon Baking Soda, added to sour milk
- 3 bananas, mashed
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (or 1 teaspoon concentrate)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- Optional - Chocolate or butterscotch chips, walnuts, or pecans (I use a combination of chocolate chip and walnuts)
INSTRUCTIONS
- In electric mixer, beat eggs, sugar and butter until fluffy.
- Add baking soda to sour milk and stir well (*If you don’t have sour milk, add a little white vinegar to the milk). Add mixture to batter along with bananas, vanilla lemon juice and salt and mix will. Add flour and beat until smooth. Remove bowl from mixer. Optional–At this time you may stir in the chips or nuts, if you prefer. Sprinkle the chips with flour to keep them from floating to the bottom.
- Bake in large greased loaf pan for 1 hour at 350 degrees, or until toothpick in center comes out clean. Remove from oven unto wire rack immediately. Wrap in plastic wrap when still warm to keep moist.
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Needs more banana and what size, small, medium or large. Sorry Barbara. Otherwise, looks great.
Yes the darker the banana the richer the flavor, stale ones can be frozen and deskined when needed, no thawing necessary, just throw into the creaming process!!!
Can I use darker bananas - that have started to get spots on the banana peels?
Hello everyone!
Glad you are enjoying the recipe. I have made many banana bread recipies over the years but keep coming back to this old family recipe. To sunyfun - yes, it is 1 tablespoon of soda.....sounds like too much, but believe me, it works. To xiaobao12 - the lemon helps the bananas keep their color and brown sugar is not necessary if you use dark ripe bananas. It gives it a nice dark...+READ
Hello everyone!
Glad you are enjoying the recipe. I have made many banana bread recipies over the years but keep coming back to this old family recipe. To sunyfun - yes, it is 1 tablespoon of soda.....sounds like too much, but believe me, it works. To xiaobao12 - the lemon helps the bananas keep their color and brown sugar is not necessary if you use dark ripe bananas. It gives it a nice dark color (some people have thought it was date bread because of this!). For those of you who haven't tried the recipe, please do! You will really enjoy it!
djthomas-COLLAPSE
Made some banana muffins with chocolate chips in them. The bananas and chocolate really complimented each other!
I really like the banana bread recipe at the Simply Recipes site. I have made it numerous times. It also has a lot of endorsements. The ingredients are very few, 1 egg and not a lot of melted butter but it works. You can also make it in one bowl and don't need a mixer. A whisk or fork will do.
One Tablespoon of baking soda? This must be an error for One Teaspoon. Unless the reaction is to get a very high rise in the bread.
Flour Cafe's Famous Banana Bread Recipe -
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giadas-weekend-getaways/flours-famous-banana-bread-recipe/index.html
I have substituted creme fraiche with buttermilk and it turned out great also...
I don't know how this recipe compares to that though.
ditto never hear of adding lemon or sour milk to banana bread... what's the reason? I love chocolate but love white chocolate chips in banana bread. And brown sugar instead of white adds a dark richness.