I would post to you a delicious banana bread recipe, except I haven't found one yet. I have had relatively good success with my latest cookbook trial, from whence came (with modifications and improvements) some of my recent posts. However, the banana bread I made was, sadly, lacking. It tastes good, don't get me wrong. But apparently a good banana bread recipe is like the Holy Grail or a piece of the One True Cross: everyone supposedly has one, and yet it cannot be found. To do justice to the male vegetarian author of the cookbook, my family recipe for banana bread is all wrong in other directions, and it was authored by women who were not vegetarians.
Apparently banana bread is an equal opportunity offender. Its offense appears to fall into one of two categories: overly dense (vegetarian cookbook), or overly sweet (my family recipe). Now I don't know about you, but I do not intend to use my baked goods for doorstops, nor do I consider it acceptable to have the sugar-to-flour ratio be 1:1 (not even kidding-- this is why diabetes is more prevalent in the American South). In addition, the vegetarian cookbook committed the previously here-chronicled crime of listing 3 bananas and 2 eggs as enough wet ingredients for 2 cups of flour and assorted leavening. No wonder it's a doorstop. I had to add some milk just to be able to pour it in the loaf pan. If I hadn't added the milk I probably would become known in history as the original discoverer of biodegradeable bricks.
So ladies, if you have an unwelcome suitor, by all means surprise him with some of that banana bread. Otherwise, I'm open to suggestions for a better recipe.
Apparently banana bread is an equal opportunity offender. Its offense appears to fall into one of two categories: overly dense (vegetarian cookbook), or overly sweet (my family recipe). Now I don't know about you, but I do not intend to use my baked goods for doorstops, nor do I consider it acceptable to have the sugar-to-flour ratio be 1:1 (not even kidding-- this is why diabetes is more prevalent in the American South). In addition, the vegetarian cookbook committed the previously here-chronicled crime of listing 3 bananas and 2 eggs as enough wet ingredients for 2 cups of flour and assorted leavening. No wonder it's a doorstop. I had to add some milk just to be able to pour it in the loaf pan. If I hadn't added the milk I probably would become known in history as the original discoverer of biodegradeable bricks.
So ladies, if you have an unwelcome suitor, by all means surprise him with some of that banana bread. Otherwise, I'm open to suggestions for a better recipe.
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