Banana Bread
Arwilda kept five different recipes with this title.
Four-loaf scaled batch
Blue Binder four-loaf batch sheet
Yield: Make 4 loaf.
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups shortening
- 2 2/3 cups sugar
- 8 eggs Beaten
- 4 cups mashed Banana
- 5 1/3 cups flour
- 8 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 2 teaspoon salt
Directions
- Cream:
- add:
- add to this:
- stir good
- Sift add:
- mix well.
- 1. Pour into greased loaf Pans + Bake.
- 2. Bake at 350° F for about 45 minutes or until tooth pick come out clean
- 3. Cool slightly then turn out to cool
Timing: for about 45 minutes
Temperature: 350° F
Equipment: loaf Pans; tooth pick
Notes
- (7 Batches)
- * depends on size of pans
Marie Kellogg eggless cream-of-tartar formula
Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-sided card
From Marie Kellogg.
Yield: Makes 1 loaf.
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups sifted flour
- 3/4 teaspoon soda
- 1 1/4 teaspoon Cream of tartar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup shortening
- 2/3 cup sugar
- add - 1 cup mashed bananas
Directions
- Stir the sugar and shortening to a creamy mixture, add the dry ingredients - which have been sifted together, add the mashed bananas and stir good.
- Bake in a greased loaf pan in a 350° oven for about 1 hr. or until Bread is done.
Timing: about 1 hr.
Temperature: 350° oven
Equipment: greased loaf pan
Mom's 1 3/4-cup-flour formula
Clear Tote two-sided card signed Mom
From Mom.
Yield: Makes 1 loaf.
Ingredients
- 5 tablespoons shortening; 2 eggs, well beaten; 1 3/4 cups sifted flour; 1/4 teaspoon soda; 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup mashed bananas
Directions
- Cream shortening and sugar; Add eggs, well beaten; Sift flour, baking powder, soda, and salt; Add to this mashed bananas.
- Pour in greased loaf pan +
- bake in 350° oven about 1 1/4 hr.
- Cool slightly, then turn out to cool, Makes 1 loaf.
Timing: about 1 1/4 hr.
Temperature: 350° oven
Equipment: greased loaf pan; oven
Notes
- This is My recipe
As written
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One-loaf 1 1/2-cup-flour formula with batch calculations
Clear Tote two-sided card with margin calculations
Yield: Makes 1 loaf.
Ingredients
- 5 tablespoons shortening
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup mashed bananas
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
- Cream:
- Add:
- Add to this:
- stir good
- Sift & Add
- 1.) Pour unto greased loaf pan and bake
- 2.) Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes
- 3.) Cool slightly then turn out to cool
Timing: about 45 minutes
Temperature: 350
Equipment: greased loaf pan
Arwilda’s changes
- Changed “5 tablespoons shortening” to “12 1/2”
- Changed “2/3 cup sugar” to “2/3 2/3 1/3”
- Changed “2 eggs” to “5”
- Changed “1 cup mashed bananas” to “2 1/2”
- Changed “1 1/2 cups flour” to “2 2/3 3/4”
- Changed “2 teaspoon baking powder” to “5”
- Changed “1/4 teaspoon soda” to “1”
- Changed “1/2 teaspoon salt” to “1 1/4”
- Crossed out “stir good”
One-loaf 1 1/3-cup-flour formula
Blue Binder one-loaf sheet
Yield: Makes 1 loaf
Ingredients
- 5 Tablespoon shortening; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 1/4 tsp. Baking Soda
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup mashed Bananas
- 1 1/3 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
Directions
- Cream
- Add!; Add to this:; Sift & Add:
- stir good
- Sift & add: 1 1/3 cups flour, 2 tsp Baking powder, 1/4 tsp. Baking soda, 1/2 tsp. salt
- Stir good
- 1. Pour into greased loaf Pan and Bake.
- 2. Bake at 350° for about 45 minutes
- 3. Cool slightly then turn out to cool
Timing: about 45 minutes
Temperature: 350°; Cool slightly; cool
Equipment: loaf Pan
Compare the cards
Base formula and leavening
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-sided card
- 1 3/4 cups flour, 3/4 teaspoon soda, 1 1/4 teaspoons cream of tartar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/3 cup shortening, 2/3 cup sugar, 1 cup banana, and no eggs.
- Blue Binder one-loaf sheet
- 5 tablespoons shortening, 2/3 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup banana, 1 1/3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- Clear Tote two-sided card with margin calculations
- The same shortening, sugar, eggs, banana, baking powder, soda, and salt quantities as the one-loaf 1 1/3-cup formula, but with 1 1/2 cups flour.
- Clear Tote two-sided card signed Mom
- The same shortening, sugar, eggs, banana, baking powder, soda, and salt quantities as the one-loaf 1 1/3-cup formula, but with 1 3/4 cups sifted flour.
One-loaf formula versus four-loaf batch
- Blue Binder one-loaf sheet
- One loaf: 5 tablespoons shortening, 2/3 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup banana, 1 1/3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- Blue Binder four-loaf batch sheet
- Four loaves: 1 1/4 cups shortening, 2 2/3 cups sugar, 8 eggs, 4 cups banana, 5 1/3 cups flour, 8 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon soda, and 2 teaspoons salt.
Right-margin batch arithmetic on the 1 1/2-cup-flour card
- Clear Tote two-sided card with margin calculations
- Base one-loaf quantities remain active; several margin results show a 2 1/2-times calculation, including 5 tablespoons to 12 1/2, 2 eggs to 5, 1 cup banana to 2 1/2, 2 teaspoons baking powder to 5, and 1/2 teaspoon salt to 1 1/4. Flour and soda annotations remain ambiguous.
- Blue Binder four-loaf batch sheet
- Another card gives a complete, explicit fourfold batch and four-loaf yield; it does not resolve the ambiguous 2 1/2-times flour or soda arithmetic on the other card.
Bake duration
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-sided card
- 350-degree oven for about 1 hour, or until the bread is done.
- Blue Binder one-loaf sheet
- 350 degrees for about 45 minutes.
- Clear Tote two-sided card signed Mom
- 350-degree oven for about 1 1/4 hours.
Name on the card attribution
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-sided card
- Marie Kellogg.
- Clear Tote two-sided card signed Mom
- This is My recipe — Mom.
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