I am always so over zealous when it comes to buying fruit at the market. Ten apples? I’ll eat them! A dozen clementines? They’ll be gone in three days! But I can never get through my bananas in time. They always get too spotty, too mushy and I end up just throwing them in my smoothies as an after thought to get them off my counter. But today, I made banana bread.
This is my grandmothers recipe, to which I’ve taken the nuts out and added a few more spices.
3 ripe bananas
1/3 cup salted butter, melted
1 cup light brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1 1/2 cup of flour
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Peel bananas and put in medium mixing bowl. Mash with either a blender or pastry blender. Pour butter into the mashed bananas, followed by the sugar, egg, and vanilla, then the spices. Mix together with the baking soda and salt. Add the flour last, slowly combining it into the mixture.
Pour into a greased 4×8 inch loaf pan. Bake for 50 minutes to one hour. Remove from pan to cool on rack. Slice to serve!
