Jessie Eldora

Traditional and Low-Fat Banana Loaves


Posted: Sunday, July 03, 2011

by Jessie Eldora
gotmydigital.com



Perfect Bananna cake recipes.

Here is a quick & easy recipe from grandma`s vintage cookbook, under Loaves & cake.

Ingredients:

• 3 or 4 ripe bananas, smashed

• 1/3 cup melted butter

• 1 cup sugar (can easily reduce to 3/4 cup)

• 1 egg, beaten

• 1 teaspoon vanilla

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• Pinch of salt

• 1 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour

Order of Ingredients Key to Success

No need for a mixer for this recipe, but the ingredients must go in the order listed for sure success.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 degrees C).

2. With a wooden spoon mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl.

3. Mix in the sugar, egg and vanilla.

4. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in.

5. Add the flour last, mix.

6. Pour mixture into a buttered, 4 x 8 inch loaf pan.

7. Bake for 50-60 minutes.

8. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

Newer Healthier Banana loaf recipe:

Use a (2 lb.) loaf tin

* can line with parchment paper.

  1. Put the syrup and butter into a pan and heat, only until melted.
  2. In a bowl /or in the pan carefully, stir in lemon & dates, muesli and oats.
  3. Add bananas and mix well.
  4. Transfer to the tin and level the top.
  5. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes.
  6. Chill overnight then cut into slices.
Makes 12 slices.

Calories per serving 240.

Fat per serving - 11gms.

Note: This recipie is is not suitable for freezing.

* NB. this second recipe has less bananas, making it quite different from the traditional recipe. 

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Jessie Eldora Robertson is a Freelance writer & photographer also a seller of digital cameras & accessories, Art prints, and Scroll & Fretwork pictures on her estore/site; a young-spirited grandma keeping-up and keeping fit. http//:www.gotmydigital.com

To add to her interest in food, when Jessie was running a Family Daycare, she took food and health courses to have her cerificates, to know how to feed and have the best care for the children.

Jessie resides in the beautiful Cariboo Chilcotin area of British Columbia, Canada with her husband.

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