Banana Bread, 1943 Joy of Cooking
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This recipe is from ‘The Home Cook Book’ in the collection at the Minden Hills Museum & Heritage Village. It was published in 1894!
A later edition of this same book is available to view in full on archive.org
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Recipe from the 1943 edition. This recipe is easily doubled or tripled if you have lots of ripe bananas. Loaves freeze well too.
(In mixer)
Cream until light:
¾ cup sugar
¼ cup butter
Beat until light and stir in:
1 egg
Beat in:
2/3 cup bananas (about 2 medium sized bananas mashed with a fork)
(In one bowl)
Sift before measuring:
2 cups bread flour
Resift with:
½ teaspoon(t) baking powder
½ t baking soda
¼ t salt
(In a separate bowl):
3 Tablespoons (T) sour milk or buttermilk
Note: you can make sour milk by adding a little lemon juice to regular milk
Add contents of these two bowls to mixer 1/3 at a time, alternating between Flour and Milk mixtures. ie: 1/3 of the Flour mixture, then 1 T of sour milk, then second 1/3 of the Flour mixture and the second T of sour milk just until blended only.
You may add chocolate chips or crushed nuts if you like.
Place batter in a greased 8 x 4 loaf pan.
Bake at 350o for about 1 hour.
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Ingredients
Directions
Recipe from the 1943 edition. This recipe is easily doubled or tripled if you have lots of ripe bananas. Loaves freeze well too.
(In mixer)
Cream until light:
¾ cup sugar
¼ cup butter
Beat until light and stir in:
1 egg
Beat in:
2/3 cup bananas (about 2 medium sized bananas mashed with a fork)
(In one bowl)
Sift before measuring:
2 cups bread flour
Resift with:
½ teaspoon(t) baking powder
½ t baking soda
¼ t salt
(In a separate bowl):
3 Tablespoons (T) sour milk or buttermilk
Note: you can make sour milk by adding a little lemon juice to regular milk
Add contents of these two bowls to mixer 1/3 at a time, alternating between Flour and Milk mixtures. ie: 1/3 of the Flour mixture, then 1 T of sour milk, then second 1/3 of the Flour mixture and the second T of sour milk just until blended only.
You may add chocolate chips or crushed nuts if you like.
Place batter in a greased 8 x 4 loaf pan.
Bake at 350o for about 1 hour.
