Banana Bread

from the

Fanny Farmer cookbook

This is my cookbook. I've had it for ages.  It falls open to this recipe automatically.  Its stained and has food spots and the spine is broken.  Its worth its weight in gold.  But, I do want to get this recipe down somewhere else, just in case...


Preheat the oven to 350.  Grease a loaf pan (I use two small loaves)

Mix in a large bowl:      3 ripe bananas
                                    2 eggs

Add in:                         3/4 cup sugar
                                    1 tsp salt
                                    1 tsp baking soda
                                    2 cups flour

stir or mix until nicely combined.

Pour into one loaf pan or two mini pans and bake 40-60 minutes, depending on the size of the pans.

This is my favorite all time banana bread.  No fat! Just "pure and simple banana bread, heavy, moist, and dark".

Good toasted, or slathered with cream cheese or butter.  The hardest part of the recipe is getting 3 over-ripe bananas.

OK, I took this one for fun, you can see the photographer/cook in the reflection in the saucepan behind the banana bread.