Recipes

BANANA BREAD
  • Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp. grated orange peel
  • 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2/3 cup whole wheat flour
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 3/4 tsp. salt
  • 1 cup mashed banana
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 3/4 cup chopped nuts
  • 3/4 to 1 cup chopped dried apricots or dates
Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
  2. Generously grease and flour a 9 x 5 loaf pan; set aside
  3. In a large bowl, cream shortening with brown sugar
  4. Add eggs and orange peel; beat well
  5. Sift together 2 3/4 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt
  6. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately with mashed banana and milk
  7. Beat well
  8. In a small bowl, coat nuts and chopped fruit with 1/4 cup flour
  9. Stir into batter
  10. Pour into prepared loaf pan
  11. Bake in preheated oven about 1 hour, until a wood- en pick inserted in the center comes out clean
  12. Cool 10 minutes in pan
  13. Remove from pan and cool on a cooling rack
  14. Makes 1 loaf.


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