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Monday Munchies #41

Monday Munchies #40

The only time I succumb to using the word Fall instead of Autumn is when Daylight Saving starts. I chant : Spring Ahead, Fall Back to remind myself what the real time is and what to do with the clock.

Daylight Saving means everyone is up an hour earlier because Peri and Gilly are. It means we are home earlier from our walk, and breakfast is at a proper hour. And so we feel the need for morning tea. Elevenses. We sit at the little table and chairs and I have a cup of tea, and I fancy something nice to eat. Bananas seem to be abundant at the greengrocer and the posh deli at the corner, so that decided today's Monday Munchy. The recipe is from an old Delicious magazine.

It is also such an easy recipe, you can be eating it an hour after you begin making it. The bananas need to be older, very ripe is best, and I used four. I expect you could also use any kind of oil, if you have a preference. I used golden caster sugar instead of white.

Banana Bread
  • 1 1/2 cups plain flour (225g)
  • 1 tspn baking powder
  • 1 tspn cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup caster sugar (110g)
  • 1 tspn of salt-I put a few twists of the salt cellar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/3 cup sunflower oil (85ml)
  • 1 tspn vanilla extract
  • 3 or 4 ripe bananas, mashed
  • 65g pecan nuts, chopped

Preheat the oven to 180*C and grease and line a small loaf tin, about 4 cup capacity.

Sift the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, sugar and salt together in a big bowl.

In another bowl, mix the egg, oil and vanilla.

Eins
Add the nuts to the mashed bananas.

Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and then mix in the bananas and nuts and the wet ingredients. Mix gently, don't over mix, just make sure all the flour is combined.

Zwei
Spoon into the tin and bake for about 50 minutes.It is fairly usual for a loaf to split on the top, in fact Nigella thinks it de rigueur. You can turn the temperature down a little, but really it's a design feature. Cool in the tin for 10-15 minutes and then on a rack. 

Drei
Slice and serve with butter and honey or ricotta is nice too.It can easily be frozen in slices, with baking or freezer paper in between. Then you can just thaw a slice whenever you want.

Cake vier

Comments

Pixie

sounds very yummy and would be easy to make GF.

Megan

mm yum banana bread is a big favourite of mine. slathered in butter yum. i haven't put pecans in before, that is a good idea to try. i don't like walnuts so i always leave nuts out of the recipes (which mostly seem to have walnuts). sometimes i like to add choc chips. just to add to the general unhealthiness of banana bread slathered in butter.

sue

Ooh I havent baked banana bread for ages, although I seem to be the only one who eats them in this house!

Laurie (Moo!)

That is one of the prettiest banana breads! I can smell it...can almost taste it! I'll bet the house smelled wonderful!!

Jan

With every slice you eat, you can congratulate yourself on money saved. Banana bread costs $$$ up here in cafes.

Jennifer Rose

perfect! i have some bananas i had no idea what to do with :)

drk

love banana bread big time. i have a donna hey recipe where you sprinkle brown sugar on top before baking. its excellent! and so virtuous!

Rose Red

mmmm I love banana bread! I have never thought of freezing it though, thank you for that excellent tip!

Alysha

Yum! I love banana bread. I am going to hoard (read hide) some bananas for a few days until they are very ripe so I can make this!

linda

oh yum I LOVE LOVE LOVE Banana Bread it is the best and yours looks FABULOUS. We were next to you yesterday at traffic lights in town I was madly waving but it was only for a few seconds then lights went green I do love your little zippy broom broom

Ann

Yummy! I love Banana Bread & used to bake them when I was living in Singapore as there were lots of sweet bananas. Your recipe is so simple & I must give it a try.

AmyP

I have to do that little rhyme as well (although not until the 31st for us in the Old Country)

Anna

WOW! Your rhyme has blown my mind - I have NEVER been able to remember which way to turn the clocks when daylight savings strikes. My life is changed :D

Jejune

LOL, I'm the same with that rhyme, the only time I use "fall" ...
Did you know that while we think of "fall" as an American term, and "autumn" as a British/Aussie term, "fall" is actually originally old English, and it emigrated with the Pilgrims to the USA, where it remained in usage. It then faded from use in the UK, and autumn (a French word) was taken up instead.

Shan

Yum! Banana bread (or in our case, Banana Nut Bread) always makes me think of my great grandmother. She never failed to have a loaf or two to send home with us.

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