Recipe - Banana Loaf

1 Three fourths cup Sifted allpurpose flour
2 One fourth teaspoons doubleacting
Baking
Powder
One half teaspoon salt
1/3 cup Shortening (OR 1/3 cup
Unsalted butter)
2/3 cup Sugar
One half teaspoon grated lemon
Rind
2 Eggs
3 Ripe bananas
OPTIONAL ADDITIONS:
One half cup broken nutmeats
One fourth cup finely chopped dried
Apricots
VARIATION: BANANA WHEAT
GERM BREAD
Reduce flour to 1 One half cups.
Add One fourth cup wheat germ.

Set out ingredients to warm to room temperature. Preheat oven to 350°.
Grease bread pan. Prepare ingredients: Grate lemon rind and set aside. Mash
bananas (you should have 1 One half cups). Finely dice the apricots and
nutmeats, if used. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set
aside. Blend the shortening (or butter), sugar, and lemon rind until
creamy, then beat in the eggs and banana pulp. With the mixer at slow
speed, add the sifted ingredients to the sugar mixture. Increase speed to
medium and beat the batter until smooth. Fold in apricots and nutmeats.
Scrape the batter into the pan. Bake about 1 hour or until done (a
toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf should come out clean). Turn
out on a rack and cool before slicing.

Posted to MMRecipes Digest by "Beth Ide" rev_ide@email.msn.com on Aug
17, 1998