Easy Banana Bread

L.-C. Campeau (@DrLCSquare)

Materials

Flour (1.75 cups)

Baking powder (2 tsp)

Salt (0.5 tsp)

Baking soda (0.25 tsp)

Sugar (2/3 cup)

Shortening (i.e. Crisco, 1/3 cups)

Egg (1)

Bananas (mashed, 3)

Chocolate chips (optional, 2/3 cups)

Procedure

1. Set oven to 350 °F

2. Grease a loaf pan using butter

3. In a large bowl combine and mix egg, sugar, and shortening

4. Mash bananas

5. Add baking soda to banana, mix

6. Add lemon juice to bananas and mix, then add to the bowl with egg, shortening, and sugar mixture

7. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in another bowl.

8. Add flour mixture to wet mixture in portions and fold/mix with a spatula. Don’t overmix.

9. Once flour mixture is added and mixed, add chocolate chips

10. Add mix to your loaf pan and place in the oven. Bake for 45 minutes.

11. Check if done using a long toothpick or wooden skewer. If not done yet (not wet when pulled out), cover with foil and cook longer. Check every 5 mins.

12. When done, let cool in pan and then take out and get fully to room temperature before wrapping it in plastic wrap for storing.

13. Enjoy! It will keep on the counter for 1 week (if you can even have it last that long!)

Figure 1. Picture of finished product.

Figure 2. Overhead view of finished product.

Supplemental Information

If you overmix, you have too much of the carbonates reacting with acids in the mixture and your banana bread will be less fluffy and won’t rise as much. You need that CO₂ generated from the neutralization to happen during cooking which causes batter to rise.

Source

Family recipe