Aunt Pat’s Banana Bread. photo by Wm. Stetz
In 1977 on a trip to Canada to a small town called Lynden Ontario, I met Aunt Pat and the whole Irish Canadian clan. The family had a great big gathering so everyone could meet us and the amount of food that they all prepared could of fed an army. Baked ham’s and Turkey’s and cheese plates. Potato salad and salads with iceberg lettuce, ( a first for me ) tomatoes and cucumber and red french dressing. Jello marshmallow salad that I thought was a dessert, and I wondered why everyone was putting it on their dinner plate.
It was the home baking that stayed in my memory. All the wonderful women bringing their special dishes and deserts and a promise of the recipe. I filled my plate with a variety of sweets and ate my first slice of banana bread ever, and thought I’d died and gone to heaven. I tried the zucchini bread that I thought was going to taste weird being a vegetable, but it was such a surprise, a light cake scented with cinnamon. There was a variety of what they called squares, butter fudge, chocolate and one they called “sex in a pan” it was delish, creamy and in layers kind of like a pudding with grated chocolate on top.
Anyway, Aunt Pat gave me her recipe for Banana bread and I’ve been making it ever since.
Aunt Pat’s Banana Bread
Preheat oven to 350º and grease the loaf pan
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup of unsalted butter
- 1 cup of sugar
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 4 ripe bananas mashed
- 1 1/2 cups of flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
Directions
- In a mixer cream the butter and sugar
- add the eggs gradually and the banana
- combine well
- sift the flour salt and baking soda and add to the mixture. Then add vanilla
- pour into the greased loaf pan
- Bake at 350º for 1 hour or till an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
Now put on the kettle and have a nice cup of tea and a bit of cake.
Sounds yummy, Louise! I love banana bread and am going to try to make it with gluten free flour.
Hi Val, check out the link I posted on gluten free baking, Elana’s recipe’s are easy to follow.
thanks for checking into my blog.
Love the Blog!
Thanks you Chris.
recipe sharing is great. At work a young guy asked if I had a recipe for trifle, as he had a family gathering and his girlfriend was unsure about it.
I shared my mum’s recipe, calling it Mrs Hudson’s trifle recipe..what a buzz.
good luck with your book
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I have it by my bed on the altar, and feel blessed by the strangers generosity and like to do the same for others when the opportunity arises.
We thought real hard about it,most of the hour actually….shall we spread chocolate on a slice??.
After the first bite we realised it wasn’t necessary, what a taste,it would be a crime to interfere with “Aunty Pat’s” original.
Thanks again Louise, we are stuffed, and the fruit bowls contents has shrunk.
Glad you guys enjoyed it.