Make My Day Camp: Tesha's Banana Bread and Cow Gift

Thursday, December 26, 2024

Tesha's Banana Bread and Cow Gift

Tesha gave us this funny wooden cow that says "kitchen closed not in the mooooood" - I love cows and the saying is cute, it's definitely found a place on my kitchen counter LOL!

She also gave us some homemade banana bread, we love her bread but I don't have her recipe and I'm in a hurry to post because I'm getting behind again hahaha so here is a different great recipe that I've been making for a long time, it is Ray's grandmother's recipe - I posted this back in 2019:

I love old hand-written recipes, especially if they are all stained up and the paper is so thin I'm almost afraid it's going to disintegrate...why is that? Not sure, sense of history maybe. The fact that someone was making this recipe years and years ago makes it special to me. I've been making Grandma Leonard's banana bread recipe for years, if you don't already have a favorite recipe then give this oldie-but-goodie standard recipe a try! We love it.

In her words:

Melt and put aside to cool
1/4 cup shortening
Sift together into a bowl
2 cups sifted flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
mix in and set aside
1 cup chopped nuts
peel and mash enough bananas to make 1 1/2 cups (3 to 4)
Mix until well blended
2 eggs well beaten
1/4 cup sour milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Blend in melted shortening and bananas
Make a well in center of dry ingredients, and add liquid mixture all at one time.
Stir only enough to moisten dry ingredients. Turn into pan and spread to corners.
Bake at 350' about 1 hour or until a wooden pick combs out clean when inserted in
center. Prepare 2 small loaf pans.