Makes one loaf; adapted from the Joy of Cooking recipe
for quick banana bread
Have all ingredients at about 70 deg F. Preheat oven to 350
deg F.
Sift together:
1 ¾ cups
flour (sifted all purpose, or blended with whole wheat, to taste)
2 ¼ t
baking powder
½ t salt
2 T
pumpkin spice blend, or 1 T cinnamon, 1 t ginger, ½ t nutmeg, 1 t all-spice, ½
t cloves
Blend until creamy:
1/3 cup
shortening or butter
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup orange marmalade
Beat in:
3 beaten
eggs
1 to 1 ¼
cup ripe banana pulp
Add the sifted dry ingredients in 3 additions to the sugar
mixture. Beat until smooth after each addition. Fold in:
1/2 cup
chopped dried cherries
1/2 cup
pecans
Do not overbeat between each addition. Fold in:
12 oz
bag chocolate chips, plus chopped up chocolate bar in larger pieces
Pour batter into a loaf pans lined with parchment paper. On
top of each loaf, sprinkle to cover in a single layer:
1/3 cup brown sugar
¼ stick (1/8th cup)
butter, cut into pieces
Bake for about an hour, until a butter knife inserted in the
center pulls out clean. Cool in pan a few minutes, then turn out onto rack to
finish cooling before slicing.
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