Recipe - Banana Swirl Bread

1 pack Active dry yeast
One half cup Warm water
1 cup Bananas; mashed
One fourth cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Salt
1 Egg
One fourth cup Butter; softened
3 One half cup Flour (could use a little
more)
One fourth cup Sugar
2 teaspoon Cinnamon

Dissolve yeast in warm water. Stir in bananas, One fourth cup sugar, salt, egg,
butter and 1Three fourths cups of the flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough
remaining flour to make dough easy to handle. Turn dough onto lightly
floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic (about 5 minutes). Place in
greased bowl; turn greased side up. Cover; let rise in warm place until
double, about 1One half hours.

Grease well 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan. Punch down dough. Roll into rectangle,
16 x 8 inch. Mix One fourth cup sugar with the cinnamon and sprinkle over the
rectangle of dough. Roll dough up tightly, beginning at narrow side. Pinch
edge of dough into roll to seal well. Place seam side down in pan. Cover;
let rise until double(about 1 hour).

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Bake until golden, about 35 minutes. Remove from
pan, and brush top with butter. If desired, can be frosted with a
confectioners' sugar glaze.

Recipe by: MEPMANN@aol.com

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 259 by Yummi357@aol.com on Nov
15, 1997