Breads & bakes

Banana bread

From
Hrefna
Oven
180 °C180 °C (350 °F)

Ingredients

  • 300 g plain flour11 oz plain flour
  • 210 g sugar7½ oz sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2–3 bananas, ripe, mashed
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
  • ½ tsp salt

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 180°C and grease a loaf tin.Heat the oven to 350 °F and grease a loaf tin.
  2. Beat the eggs and mashed bananas together well.
  3. Then add the sugar.
  4. Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt and stir them gently into the mixture.
  5. One batch (about 1 kg of batter) fills one loaf tin ('the brown tin').One batch (about 2¼ lb of batter) fills one loaf tin ('the brown tin').
  6. Bake at 180°C for 1 hour 15 minutes.Bake at 350 °F for 1 hour 15 minutes.
  7. Bake on the second-lowest oven shelf.

Notes

  • Use the K-beater (flat paddle) on the stand mixer, not the whisk.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Bananabrauð
(Hrefna)
300gr. hveiti - 210gr. sykur 2egg + 2-3 bananar) hrært vel svo sykurinn. 1tsk. natron - 1/2 tsk. salt
1uppskr: 1 brúna formið. (ca 1kg. deig) 180°c. 1klst og 15 min. næst neðstu rim. ((or þykktinni) á hæðina)