By curiously popular demand, and because I'm still too grossed out by bananas to make this one myself any time soon:
Milo's Apparently Beloved Banana Bread
1/2 cup of butter, softened a bit
1/2 to 1 cup of sugar, depending on how ripe your bananas are
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 to 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, to taste
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1 to 1 1/2 cups of overripe banana, mashed
1/2 cup walnuts/pecans/chocolate chips, if you really insist on such crap
Cream the butter into the sugar gradually, beating until it's consistent and rather fluffy. Add an egg, beat the hell out of it until fluffy. Add the other egg and beat it too.
Preheat your oven to 350f about now.
Combine the dry ingredients -- flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon -- and either whisk or sift them well, then slowly stir the dry into the wet mixture. Add the vanilla, stir it a bit, then add the banana and stir it better than you just did.
Take the nuts/chocolate chips and insert them back in your pantry; this bread doesn't need that crap to be good if you have some good about-to-go-bad bananas. Shame on you if you don't.
Pour the batter evenly into two greased bread-loaf [6x3x2"-ish or slightly bigger] pans. Bake for 50-ish minutes or until you start smelling it, and then test them with the old see-if-a-wooden-toothpick-comes-out-clean test. Let cool in the pans for 10-15 minutes, then pop them out to really cool down before cutting, ideally on a wire rack if you have one. You probably won't wait for them to cool before cutting off a piece, but you really should.
Mozel tov, you just mastered the tea bread -- replace the cup o' bananas with a cup o' berries and you have berry bread, replace/decrease the teaspoon of cinnamon with either orange or lemon juice and you have that kind of bread. Orange-cranberry bread, cinnamon-raisin, blood-of-your-enemies & butterscotch-chip bread, etc.
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