Aunt Muriels Banana Bread Food

AUNT HOLLY'S BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Mash the bananas in a bowl. Add all the remaining ingredients and mix well with a wooden spoon. Bake in a buttered loaf pan until a toothpick stuck into the bread comes out clean, 55 to 60 minutes. Slice and serve.

MY AUNT'S BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
• Stir the bananas and vinegar together in a bowl, and set aside. Cream the sugar and butter together in a large bowl until creamy and smooth, then beat in the eggs. Stir in the reserved banana mixture. In a separate bowl, stir the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together until the mixture is free of lumps. Mix the flour mixture into the butter-sugar mixture until well blended, and stir in the chopped walnuts and chocolate chips. Spread the batter into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Let cool in pan about 5 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

AUNT CARRIE'S BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Cream shortening and sugar.
• Add unbeaten eggs.
• Beat well.
• Blend in well-mashed bananas.
• Add flour in which soda and salt have been sifted together.
• (Batter should be about the same consistency as a cake batter. If too stiff, add a small dash of milk. If too thin, add small amount of flour.) Stir in pecans.
• Pour into a greased and floured 5 x 9 inch loaf pan.
• Bake at 350* for about 50 minutes or until done.

MOMMA CALLIE'S BANANA NUT BREAD WITH HONEY BUTTER

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and put a rack on the middle shelf. Butter and flour a 9 by 5 by 3-inch loaf pan.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
• In a separate small bowl, mash the bananas with a wooden spoon, leaving a bit of texture.
• In another large bowl, use a hand electric mixer or stand mixer to cream the 1/2 cup of butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, 1 at a time. Stir in the mashed bananas, sour cream and vanilla and beat until just combined. Add the dry ingredients and gently stir in pecans. Pour the batter into the pan and put on a sheet tray.
• Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes in the pan then turn out onto a wire rack to finish cooling. Slice and serve with Honey Butter.
• Mix the butter and the honey together in a small bowl with a wooden spoon. Serve with the banana bread.

JANET'S RICH BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• In a large bowl, stir together the melted butter and sugar. Add the eggs and vanilla, mix well. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt, stir into the butter mixture until smooth. Finally, fold in the sour cream, walnuts and bananas. Spread evenly into the prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean. Cool loaf in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

BETTYE'S BEST BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease and flour two 8 1/2-by-4 1/2 inch loaf pans.
• Combine flour, salt, and baking soda.
• Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately.
• Beat batter 2-3 minutes.
• Stir in vanilla, nuts, and bananas.
• Spoon into loaf pans.
• Bake about 50 minutes, or until a toothpick can be inserted and pulled out clean.
• Cool before adding glaze.
• For the glaze, stir confectioners' sugar and lemon juiice until smooth.
• Pour over cooled loaves.

GREAT AUNT MARIE'S BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• beat butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer.
• gradually add sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
• add eggs one at a time blending after each addition.
• combine flour and next 3 ingriedient'.
• sgradually add to butter mixture, beating on low speed.
• stir in banana, pecans and vanilla.
• spoon into greased and floured 8x4 inch breadpans.
• bake at 350 for 1 hour
• shelding with aluminum foil for last 15 minutes.
• remove from pans and cool 30 minutes on wire racks.

AUNT EMMA'S BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Break the bread into small chunks in a large bowl.
• Add the white sugar and melted butter and stir.
• Add the eggs one at a time alternately with the milk stirring well so that each egg is incorporated before adding the next one until all the eggs and milk are used.
• Stir in the vanilla and raisins.
• Pour into a greased lasagna pan or a 13x9" inch pan.
• (sometimes the 13x9 tends to get over full depending on the particular loaf of bread).
• Sprinkle the brown sugar evenly across the top of bread mixture.
• Bake in a preheated 350* oven for 1 hour.
• Let cool 20 to 30 minutes as pudding will set firmer as it cools.
• Can be served warm or chilled.

AUNT MURIEL'S BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Beat all wet ingredients and add dry ingredients. Be sure not to overmix.
• Great for Muffins or loaves.