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Banana Nut Bread for Breakfast

Hmm imagine a freshly baked loaf of banana bread full of walnuts for your breakfast. Yummy huh?

Well, you need not go to a bakery for this. You can make it at home in your oven. This recipe is what I would classify as ‘throw in everything, mix and bake’.

Ok enough about how great the bread is, how about the recipe now.

I think this recipe is from Betty Crocker’s bread recipe book. Its an old edition.

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour,
1/2 cup shortening, (or margarine)
1 cup sugar,
1 tsp salt,
1 tsp baking powder,
1/2 tsp baking soda,
2 medium size bananas mashed (about a cup),
2 eggs,
1/2 cup crushed walnuts

Method:

Except the walnuts, mix all the other ingredients in a mixer, or with a hand blender (be patient it gets sticky). This is neither like cake batter, nor like dough. Its kind of in between; thicker than cake batter, thinner than dough.

After everything is mixed up, stir in the walnuts.

Grease the bread tin. Pour the batter, and bake at 350 deg F for about 65-75 minutes, depending on how your oven heats up. Mine took 65 minutes. I put it on the middle shelf of the oven.

I know, the saying is practice what you preach, but its best to wait for the bread to cool down, and then slice it. I being rather an impatient girl, had to dig in one of the corners of the bread, as soon as it came out of the oven, and hence I didnt get a chance to take a picture of the bread

At breakfast, we like to dip this bread in milk and eat. Its fantastic! But, this is good like a dessert, a snack, anything!

August 3rd, 2008