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Banana Nut Bread

A historical recipe from Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cook Book, by Betty Crocker (1956).

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A historical recipe

Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cook Book: 157 Recipes and Ideas, by Betty Crocker (1956). Project Gutenberg eBook #62841.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. ¾ cup sugar
  2. ½ cup milk

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. Make Nut Bread using ¾ cup sugar and ½ cup milk.
  2. Reduce nuts to ¾ cup, and add 1 cup mashed bananas (2 to 3).
  3. Make Nut Bread using ¾ cup sugar.
  4. Use 1¼ cups orange juice plus 1 tbsp.
  5. grated orange rind instead of milk.
  6. Reduce nuts to ¾ cup.
  7. Bake 50 to 55 min.
  8. Neat Trick: For dainty rounds, divide batter among 5 soup cans or 3 #303 cans, filling only half full.
  9. Bake 40 to 50 min.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Grater
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cook Book, by Betty Crocker (1956). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #62841 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62841). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.