Banana bread

Banana bread

Pale banana bread cake made with unripe bananas and molasses
Type	Sweet bread
Place of origin	United States
Main ingredients	Bananas, wheat, water, sugar
Variations	Banana raisin bread, banana nut bread, chocolate chip banana bread
Cookbook: Banana bread   Media: Banana bread

Banana bread is a type of bread made from mashed bananas.^[1] It is often a moist, sweet, cake-like quick bread; however there are some banana bread recipes that are traditional-style raised breads.

History[]

Banana bread first became a standard feature of American cookbooks with the popularization of baking soda and baking powder in the 1930s. It appeared in Pillsbury's 1933 Balanced Recipes cookbook,^[2] and later gained more acceptance with the release of the original Chiquita Banana's Recipe Book in 1950.^[3]

National Banana Bread day is February 23.^[4] Bananas appeared in the US in the 1870s and it took a while for them to appear as ingredient items for desserts.^[5] The modern banana bread recipe^[6] began being published in cookbooks around the 1930s and its popularity was greatly helped by the introduction of baking powder on the market. Some food historians believe banana bread was a byproduct of the Great Depression as resourceful housewives did not wish to throw away overripe bananas (as they were still a costly item to purchase), others believe the modern banana bread was developed in corporate kitchens to promote flour and baking soda products. It could also be a combination of both theories, insofar as being developed in a corporate kitchen to promote flour and baking soda products, as well as marketed as a method to make use of overripe bananas.^[7]

Variations[]

• Banana raisin bread
• Banana nut bread (often featuring chopped nuts, such as walnuts, pecans or almonds)
• Chocolate chip banana bread (featuring chocolate chips)
• Banana bread muffins
• Vegan banana bread (made without eggs or dairy products)
• Blueberry banana bread (or other fruits such as raspberry or orange to add additional flavours)

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  Banana bread without nuts

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  Chocolate chip banana bread

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  Blueberry banana bread

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