2 c All-purpose flour
1 c Sugar
2 ts Baking powder
1 ts Salt
1/2 c (1 stick) cold butter or
-margarine, cut in pieces
1 c Mashed ripe bananas (about 2
-large bananas)
1 c Coarsely chopped walnuts
1/4 c Finely chopped candied
-ginger
2 Eggs
1 ts Vanilla
——crunch topping——-
1/2 c All-purpose flour
1/4 c Sugar
1/4 c (1/2 stick) butter or
-margarine, melted
3/4 ts Ground cinnamon
2 tb Confectioners sugar
Makes 1 loaf (12 slices) for $3.82.
1. Heat oven to 350-F Grease 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan.*
2. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in large bowl. With pastry
blender or 2 knives used scissor fashion, cut in butter until mixture
resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in bananas, walnuts, ginger, eggs and vanilla
until mixture is just moistened. Spoon batter evenly into prepared pan.
3. Prepare crunch topping: Combine flour, sugar, butter and cinnamon in a
small bowl. Sprinkle evenly over batter.
4. Bake in 350-F oven for 70 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in
center comes out clean. If bread begins to brown too quickly, cover loosely
with foil. Cool bread in pan 10 minutes. Remove bread from pan to wire rack
to cool completely. Sprinkle cooled bfead with confectioners’ sugar.
*For Muffins: Grease twelve 4 1/2 X 2 1/2-inch muffin-pan cups. Bake at
350-F for 20 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out
clean.
MC Busted by Martha Hicks
Yields
1 Servings