On Fri, 08 May 2009 11:08:09 +1200, bob wrote:

> On Thu, 07 May 2009 06:20:08 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> > shouted from the highest rooftop:
>
>>In article >,
>> bob > wrote:
>>
>>> Our kitchen has been turned into a bakery for the past few days.
>>> Learning curves all the way.
>>>
>>> I ended up making three loaves of banana bread using recipes from
>>> elsie.com, Mr Bill's and Jinx. All came out well, but the elsie.com
>>> one was a bit on the dry side. I would have used info's "Exported from
>>> MasterCook" recipe, but I couldn't figure out what "Sugar Twin" meant.
>>
>>Didn't know you were interested in banana bread, bob. This is good:
>>
> <recipe saved & snipped>
>
> Hi Barb - Thanks for the recipe. I can see that the sour cream would
> give it a nice taste boost and improve the texture.
>
> Other than eat some banana cake other people have baked ... or an
> attractive slice that called out to me in a cafe or coffee shop, I've
> never been a banana cake aficionado or attempted to bake one before.
>
> But now that we've got a daughter who grows Lady Finger bananas and a
> good friend who grows even more of the same, we have suddenly found
> ourselves with huge amounts of ripening bananas.
>
> We've given loads of them away to friends who have growing kids and
> I've frozen some peeled bananas for use in smoothies. Both Anne and I
> have also been eating bananas every day for weeks - on cereal, in
> fruit salads and on their own. Good thing we like bananas!
>
> Even so, that has still left us with several dozen that needed to be
> used and I hate waste. Besides, I make my own rye bread, so why not
> try banana bread. (My cake attempt was a success ... the taste was
> delicious ... but the texture wasn't as good as it could have been
> because of an oven temperature issue I'll make accommodation for next
> time).
>
> And ... guess what? I was talking with our banana friend a couple of
> nights ago and he's got another huge bunch (several hundred bananas)
> that he's bringing over when they start to ripen. So I'll be giving
> your recipe a go.
>
> Cheers, Bob

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