Grandma's Banana Bread

Ingredients:

2 cups (250g) all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon salt

½ cup butter

¾ cup (170g) brown sugar

2 eggs beaten

2 bananas plus 2/3 of another banana, mashed

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

½ teaspoon banana extract



Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 to 180 Celsius) *, gas mark 4.

Grease a 9x5” loaf pan or mini loaf pans.

In one bowl combine first three ingredients. In a separate bowl add butter. If the bowl is oven safe place in oven to melt the butter or place in microwave. Microwave until butter is melted. Every oven and microwave is different so go by your ovens instructions. Mine only takes 5 minutes in oven or 55 seconds in microwave.

After taking the butter out of either the oven or microwave let sit for a few minutes to cool down. Add the brown sugar.

In the bowl that has the mashed bananas add the vanilla extract as well as the banana extract. Mix well.

Add the banana mixture to the butter sugar mixture and mix well. Then add that mixture to the flour mixture. Mix until moistened taking care not to over beat since this will make the bread tough.

Pour this batter into the prepared loaf or mini loaf pans. Bake in oven for 60 to 65 minutes or until tested done by a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Mini loaves will only take 30 to 40 minutes so I check them usually starting at 25 minutes.

Let cool in pan for 5 minutes then flip out onto baker’s rack.

*NOTE* Always go by your ovens manufacturer’s instructions on oven temps since all ovens are not the same!