Almost the World's Best Banana Bread
A craving today, for something banana and chocolate. Definitely in contention, though not the gold standard. Especially if you add chocolate chips instead of nuts.
Banana Bread (adapted from The Art of Cooking for Two, Castle and Newton)
Mix together with a wire whisk:
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup sugar
2 T. sour milk (made by adding a tiny bit of vinegar to some 2%)
1 T. fresh lemon juice
2-3 ripe bananas, mashed
Add, stirring only to moisten dry ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. each salt and baking soda
Stir in:
1/2 cup chocolate chips
(You can add some walnuts, too, if you like them. Even better, save a few to scatter strategically on the top and your bread will look amazingly professional.)
Spoon into buttered loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for about one hour, or until a toothpick comes out almost clean. Cover with foil at the end if the top is browned but the inside is still not cooked completely.
Let sit, if you can, until it cools. Again, even better, if you cover it with foil when it cools and wait until the next morning, you'll have the perfect breakfast with a hot cup of coffee. Most of the time, though, this doesn't happen.
Banana Bread (adapted from The Art of Cooking for Two, Castle and Newton)
Mix together with a wire whisk:
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup sugar
2 T. sour milk (made by adding a tiny bit of vinegar to some 2%)
1 T. fresh lemon juice
2-3 ripe bananas, mashed
Add, stirring only to moisten dry ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. each salt and baking soda
Stir in:
1/2 cup chocolate chips
(You can add some walnuts, too, if you like them. Even better, save a few to scatter strategically on the top and your bread will look amazingly professional.)
Spoon into buttered loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for about one hour, or until a toothpick comes out almost clean. Cover with foil at the end if the top is browned but the inside is still not cooked completely.
Let sit, if you can, until it cools. Again, even better, if you cover it with foil when it cools and wait until the next morning, you'll have the perfect breakfast with a hot cup of coffee. Most of the time, though, this doesn't happen.
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