Banana Nut Bread | Cooking With Brenda Gantt 2023

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Good evening y’all listen I want you to look at these bananas they’ve about had it and what do we do with bananas when they’ve about had it we made banana nut bread so I’m gonna make that real quickly tonight and uh has to cook for an hour so while it’s cooking I’m gonna

Get my bath and get ready for bed but anyway that’s what we’re gonna do all right this is a real easy recipe and the good thing about this recipe is that not only does it make banana nut bread but it also makes carrot nut bread and zucchini bread you just change the fruit

In it and you just make whatever kind of bread you want to so I’m gonna read it out to you I’ve got a few things already measured up so we’ll do that what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna say three cups of all-purpose flour and there we go

This is easy enough one three cups of all-purpose flour three-fourths teaspoon of salt so let me find that three-fourths teaspoon salt plus or minus a little you know it you don’t have to be specific specific okay there’s one fourth two fours three-fourths all right now you’re going to add a

Teaspoon of baking soda that out this is real easy I made it lots of times before all right there’s the teaspoon of baking soda all right got that in there um two cups of sugar I need a million cup I was kind of getting low on my sugar

The other day I thought crying out loud and I hardly have any plain flour left right there’s one cup and two cups all right got that done that was easy enough okay what does it say next um teaspoon of ground cinnamon I think I may put a little bit more than

A teaspoon I love cinnamon Musta I’m gonna put I’m gonna put a heated teaspoon what does it say it says one teaspoon so what I’ll do is put me a little heaping teaspoon in there instead of just warm up I kind of Heap it up a little bit all right we got that

In it smells so good all right three eggs well let’s stir this round first because that’s our dry ingredients let’s give it a stir just to say it and also well I washed my old dog today she had her some fleas let me tell you

So I got her out in the backyard and chained her to a chair so she couldn’t run off she knows when I’m fixing to bathe her I don’t know if she she knows it I think dogs just kind of have them I don’t know but anyway I chained her I wet her all

Over with a hose pipe then I put lemon joy on her dishwashing liquid and let me tell you that as soon as you start scrubbing and doing her with that the fleas die instantly I don’t know if it’s the lemon in the joint or the bubbles but I’m

Telling you it works and I bathed her really super good I rinsed her off really super good because she did get all that off of her and she was so happy she was so happy matter of fact she’s in the house tonight laying over there

Um I couldn’t let her in because she has to be pleased all right now we’re going to put in a cup of chopped uh pecans kind of running out of those too we’re ready for pecan season to come back aren’t we I think I’ll just use all these because

It’s not that many of them anyway I might as well use them all that all right let’s cut let me put this out it’s going to be close to a cup yeah it won’t be much over there’s a little hole in there anyway my daughter came over today she’s

Trying to sprig some grass so I had some Saint Augustine grass in my flower bed it really needed getting out of there so she came over she said hey mama where do you want me to dig to get some some grass so I could get some started at my house I said well

What you dig my flower bed that’ll be a great place to start so I got a free clean out my flower bed day with my daughter needing grass but that St Augustine runs on the ground like this and it is a great grass and it likes the shade

So she’s got plenty of shade so it’ll be real good right there’s our pecans caught three beaten eggs I like to let my eggs get some really temperature to y’all room temperature oh my goodness look double yolk double yolk you hardly ever see those in store-bought eggs but this one does have

It that’s a single this ought to be extra good at it all right let me get me a little Fork okay while I’m doing this I’ll leave one cup of vegetable oil okay let’s put this in one cup of vegetable oil there we go three eggs

You know I’d rather take a beat than have to get out that mix or have y’all ever feel that way I mean I don’t know if something can be stirred up in a pan I I prefer doing it that way I you know I love my mixer it does a

Great job but I if I could stir it’ll pay in it just seemed like it just good for my soul my mama used to make banana nut bread a lot and we’d come home from school now listen if you don’t want to put in the um pecans this recipe said you could put

In walnuts or any other kind of nut that you want to put in all right so so know that you can do that all right this this recipe calls for a six ounce can of drained crushed pineapple so I cut this can open ended I

Cut it open upside down so I’m about to read upside down see what it says this is one pound that’s way too much I’m just going to save some of it let’s see what this says well we only need eight ounces so about half of this can and I’ve got me a um

I had made my tea straight around here okay y’all what’d you do with it what did you do with my tea strainer I think it’s my Facebook friends they come in here and they just still muster there you do here it is here it is here it is

All right I it’s said to drain it so I’m just gonna do out half of this can that’s about right and I’m gonna push it down on my hands like that and that will get out the extra juice grain Finance hey let’s put that in see this is going to be delicious okay

That are nuts coconuts let’s see if anything else grows in oh I taste uh two teach two two teaspoons of vanilla one and two and last but not least our bananas see this is making a huge pan of batter all right it said that we need two cups of um

Right real right bananas see they look terrible on the outside but when you peel open banana I mean some people like them like this I do I don’t like a green banana deliver me from that I like I like them soft so what I’m gonna do is

Just I think I’ll put them in this red cup let’s break a few up in there so how much do y’all think two cups is two cups of crushed bananas maybe four bananas something like that I don’t want to have to measure I’m gonna I’ll put three three in there we’ll see

About that so anyway let’s I’m gonna mash it down a little bit with the fork and we’ll see how many this is that’s a mighty Big Cup right there so that may be close to two cups I don’t know we’re gonna we’re gonna find out though aren’t we I think I’ll

Match it with this thing that will do a good job all right I think I’m gonna put it in this big measuring cup because it is a it’s a two cup and we’ll see if this is close to it you know banana nut bread is so good

Early in the morning when you get up and you’ve made your coffee and you’re going out on the porch to enjoy the morning and it’s early and the birds are just beginning to seem because it’s still a little dark out there but you could hear those first Birds when they sing

And a piece of banana nut bread and a cup of coffee is so good all right that was four bananas and it is not the top but it is a cup and a half so if I put in two more that ought to be about right

I’m not going to measure it though I’m just gonna put two more in there just gonna have to do one and two all right but you know we always have bananas that are going to go bad and you can freeze bananas if they if it looks like that

They’re gonna go bad on you you can freeze them peel them and freeze them in a bag and you can put them in smoothies and different things like that okay here it is two cups of banana it said it made two loaves but I’m I’m kind of thinking I need to get out

Another pan a pile of batter in it but that’s what it says it says put it in two greens I’ve got these bread fans right here two greased and floured eight and a half by four and a half by three inch loaf fans and cook for 300

Cook at 350 degrees for one hour so I’m going to read the recipe to you again before we do that because I know y’all might want to cook it three cups of all-purpose flour 3 4 teaspoon of salt one teaspoon of baking soda two cups of sugar one teaspoon of ground cinnamon

One cup of chopped pecans or walnuts or whatever you want to put in there three eggs one cup of vegetable oil two cups of smashed bananas and we decided that was six we measured it like that and uh and eight ounces of your crushed pineapple so that leftover pineapple that you have

In there that would be delicious and some Jello remember when um we used a long time ago I we mama would make Jello and I always put a can of fruit cocktail in it that was some good um anyway and two teaspoons of vanilla extract you mix the first you know dry

Ingredients together and then mix your liquids in there together and put it in two pans I’m gonna put it in two pans like it says but I’m kind of thinking I need to go get another fan boy this looks good really does and it smells super I’m glad that I put

A heap of teaspoon of cinnamon in there because I wonder if I even read I think I did read to you if I didn’t it said call for a teaspoon of cinnamon but I put um I put two in there I mean a heated one because I wanted to all right look

Here I’ve already greased My Pan and both of them and here’s how i flour mine of course everybody’s different you can flour it any way you want but I put this about a little scoop of flour in there and then I put this pan

On top of this pan like this and I hold it tie like that really if I can but this and I hold it over by bowling a dance now turn it over dance this way getting your exercise y’all a little bit see that bolt this one a little bit in the pan

And I’m ready to put it in there stir that up a little extra flour that came out of there okay I’m gonna put it in here and we’ll see I’m gonna put some in that pan yeah this is going to be about right y’all because you wanted to kind of come up

Like a true loaf you know you don’t want it to be too skinny okay kind of do like that or that’s how my mom always did it she’d shake it a little bit there’s one pan going in see how far it came up um well a little over halfway and I’m

Gonna put that on the oh I got it on the middle shelf and I’m gonna put I’ve got it on 350 and it’s preheated and while that’s pre while that’s do it I’m gonna go get ready for bed I’m gonna clean up this then I’ll get ready for

Bed but uh it’s gonna be good I probably won’t eat any till in the morning I might have that with my coffee in the morning I hope y’all have a great diet I will come back if I don’t forget I’m gonna let you see how it looks okay see

You in a little bit okay y’all I just took the um banana nut bread out of the oven and I soaked it with one of these little jewels to see if it was done and it is as a matter of fact I think I cooked it about five minutes a little too much

Got back there looking at my books and stuff I’d like to went to sleep and burnt the whole thing didn’t but they look good they look real good to me and so I what I’m going to do is pop them out hopefully there we go we’ll let them we’ll let them cool

And in the morning we’ll eat them eating tonight I don’t want to but they sure do smell good oh is this one gonna stick I don’t know let me let me flip it back over let me get this little thing to help me now let’s see what the problem is here

I’m gonna have coffee and banana bread tomorrow so good well fella get out of there there we go and it’s stuck oh well it’ll be good anyway I’m gonna tell you what I’m gonna do I’m gonna get this out in one piece if I can

Put it on top work it like a puzzle nobody will know the difference will they we’re gonna chew it up anyway so it doesn’t matter we’re gonna chew it up anyway all right those look pretty I’ll flip them over to the to the round side up we’re going to sit right there tonight

Cool off I am going to put clothes over it chopping block I wanted to I don’t want to put the a Saran Wrap or anything on it because it it’ll sweat it’s probably gonna sweat anyway I’ll kind of do it up like that put it on there

Good night y’all hope you have a good night’s rest tonight I plan to talk to y’all tomorrow bye bye okay I forgot to tell you this and I know if I don’t y’all will be asking me but if you want to make carrot bread instead of banana

Bread all you do is substitute two cups of grated carrots for the for the two cups of bananas so just put two cups of carrots if you want to make zucchini bread just substitute two cups of grated you grate it your zucchini in the place

Of two cups of banana so you could make three breads out of this Hawaiian banana nut breads what we made tonight I guess because it’s got pineapple in it and then your carrot nut bread and your zucchini nut bread and and that says that’s all you do

It’s just to substitute that so I have made the bikini I mean the bikini listen to me boy utilities late at night I have made the zucchini bread um but I’ve never made the carrot one but I’m sure that’ll be good because I love carrot cake talk to y’all later