1st Place Banana Nut Bread

Submitted by Suzy_Q

"From "The Green Thumb Harvest" Cookbook. This won first prize in 1889 at the Wabash, Indiana County Fair by her great-grandmother according to the woman who submitted it. This makes 2 loaves."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 20mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 2 loaves
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• 1 cup sweet butter, softened
• 2 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 3 1⁄2 cups unsifted unbleached flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 2 1⁄2 cups mashed very ripe bananas
• 2 cups chopped walnuts

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter 2 loaf pans.
2. Pour the lemon juice into the milk and stir until the milk is curdled. Set aside.
3. Beat together the butter, sugar and vanilla until creamy. Add the eggs, mixing thoroughly.
4. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt. Add this to the butter-sugar mixture alternately with the curdled milk. Stir in the bananas and nuts.
5. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pans and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.

Reviews

[Katzen]

This was a good banana bread, and I loved the flavour! I noticed that it had more sugar in it than the other banana breads I've made lately, and I wonder if that's what caused it to carmelize in the oven - it made it hard to remove from the pan, and it got overly dark as well. I would try this one again, just reducing the sugar, and watching it much closer in the oven. Thanks so much for the recipe! Made for My Three Chefs.