Banana bread
Banana bread is a sweet, cakelike bread which contains mashed bananas. Banana bread is a quick bread which typically uses baking soda as the leavening agent instead of yeast. Rather than dough, the bread is baked from thick batter, which does not require kneading. Banana bread is usually baked in a rectangular loaf pan.
Banana bread highly resembles, tastes, and may even be mistaken for Zucchini bread.
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History
Banana bread first became a standard feature of American cookbooks with the popularization of baking soda and baking powder in the 1930s (and appears in Pillsbury's 1933 Balanced Recipes cookbook). The home baking revival of the 1960s and the simplicity of its recipe led to an explosion in banana bread's popularity. The cookbooks of the 1960's added to its popularity because they commonly listed multiple variations of bread that added fruits and nuts.
References
- Olver, Lynne (2004). The Food Timeline: Cakes. Retrieved Nov. 14, 2004.
- Shindler, Merrill. (1996). 100 Recipes from Ten Delicious Decades. Angel Press:Santa Monica.
- Jenkins, Virginia Scott. (2000). Bananas: An American Story. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington.
External links
- Banana Bread Recipes - Allrecipes has over 100 free banana bread recipes.
- Joy of Baking
- Banana Bread recipes for bread makers and the history of banana bread
- Healthy Oat Bran Banana Bread A healthier variation of Banana Bread
- Healthy version of banana bread without eggs, and sweetened with Sucralose instead of sugar
Categories
Limited geographic scope | Quick breads | Sweet breads