Banana Bread

By: Jackson Williams

Directions:

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Step 2: Take your brown and granulated sugar and baking oil and mix together in your mixing bowl.

Step 3: Add your bananas to the mixing bowl and mix them with the sugar.

Step 4: When you finish mixing them you are going to add your flour, cinnamon, salt, and baking soda. Then you are going to mix all your ingredients together.

Step 5: Use your cooking oil to grease the bread pan.

Step 6: Pour your batter into your pan.

Step 7: Put your pan in your oven for 40-50 minutes.

Ingredients:

  • 3 medium over ripped bananas

  • 1/3 cup brown. sugar

  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar

  • 1/3 cup any baking oil

  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

  • 2 cups all purpose flower

  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

  • 1 teaspoon ground salt

  • 1/4 cup brown Sugar

The History of Banana Bread

Banana Bread is a dish that is made all over the world. All these different cultures have different stir-ins they use such as walnuts, chocolate chips, fillings, etc.

Although banana bread is a worldwide delicacy, the first recipe for banana bread was published in 1893 by the Vienna Model Bakery’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This recipe was different than most recipes now because it called for banana flour instead of mashed or whole bananas. While the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was the first to publish a recipe, it is hard to know who really created the first banana bread, because the USA has so many different cultures in its melting pot. Even though the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was the first to publish a banana bread recipe, it did not popularize the banana bread recipe. In 1927, a produce company, named Unfruit, published a cookbook with a banana bread recipe that is like the recipes of today. This would come in handy just a few years later during the Great Depression because certain foods were hard to come by. Many families would cook things that could feed them for a week or two. Since bananas could go bad, they had to use up all their bananas quickly. So, they made banana bread!

I originally started making Banana Bread with my sister. We originally made it for my mom as a surprise, but ever since that day, it became a tradition to make it with my sister.

Fun fact: The Vienna Model Bakery was founded in my hometown of NYC!