I’m not sure of the origin of banana bread but it is certainly very Australian in that where I might go to a coffee shop in the UK and have scones or a toasted tea cake, here I would choose hot buttered banana bead as the accompaniment to my beverage.
Mat recently procured a recipe from a friend and we tested it out at the weekend. We have both been enjoying it for breakfast since and I thought I would share it:
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups self-raising flour
1 tsp ground cinnamon/mixed spice
1 tbs margarine/butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg lightly beaten
1/4 cup milk
2 bananas mashed
Method:
1. Coat a loaf pan with cooking spray and pre-heat oven to 200°C.
2. Combine flour and cinnamon in a bowl and rub in marg with fingertips.
3. Stir in sugar, egg, milk and banana.
4. Put mixture in the tin and bake until golden.
NB. Add anything you like to the mix, e.g. nuts.
The measurement in cups is becoming ever popular versus good old pounds and ounces, even grams, but we just threw the ingredients together in a fair approximation, doubling everything for a larger loaf, and it worked. We added some chopped pecans for a little extra something and didn’t even have a loaf tin so improvised with a large soufflé dish.
I can’t remember how long we left it in the oven but when it started to look cooked on top we stuck a skewer in it and the middle was still very sticky. We had to put it back in the bottom of the oven on a very low heat and cook for quite a while longer. The end result was delicious; in fact I would go as far to say as it was as good as any I have tried in a café. Mat seemed to think it wasn’t sweet enough and needed either more sugar or more bananas. Apparently it was supposedly a low calorie recipe but personally I would have found it too sweet with more sugar. It obviously just depends on your palate so it may take a few tries to get it just right for you.
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So is it anything like banana cake back in Britain? That was the one thing I liked that had bananas in it. Home baked only. The ones in the shop tasted of bananas. Imagine that! Yuck. I’ve started publishing (finally) some of the Amsterdam 2007 trip photos over at my blog. Also upgraded your plugins where needed. Not yet upgraded you to Wordpress 2.8 – need to check if you’ll have any incompatibility problems first.
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Um, I can only vaguely remember a banana cake my mum made once but think it was a bit different – you didn’t toast it or spread butter on it.
Am liking the Dam pictures. I can’t believe it was nearly two years ago now.
I’m assuming the blog fairy has upgraded wordpress now because my dashboard is all wierd. Either that or wordpress is playing up but I can’t make head nor tale of it so I hope it sorts itself out soon, I need to make some posts
Yep, a message detailing the changes is on your dashboard at the bottom, still viewable.
Short version is use Internet Explorer for now, until we get you off the free hosting you are on. The insertion of the company’s adverts at the top of every page is somehow ruining not just your RSS feed anymore, but also the dashboard.
Give me a bell on skype when you have 30 mins or so free, and we’ll go through and put you on my server for now, unless you want to take the plunge and get your own hosting.