Pirate Buttermilk Banana Bread

In this previous post I made Mom's banana bread. Now I'll make mine.

Pirate Buttermilk Banana Bread

¾ cup sugar
½ cup real butter [I use Land O'Lakes]
2 eggs
2 large or 3 medium very ripe [we call them "giraffe-skin"]bananas to equal 1 cup mashed [I never measure them]
2 ½ cups flour
1 tsp. Baking soda
1 tsp. Baking powder
¾ cup buttermilk

1 shot (1oz./2tbsp.) secret Syn-ister ingredient spiced rum [Aye Captain Morgan]
½ cup plus broken English walnuts (optional)[it doesn't really need them]

Preheat oven to 350° F.

Sift together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
Cream together butter and sugar.

Add eggs, then bananas.
Add flour mixture a little at a time, then add milk [be careful, it splatters] and the rum [yo-ho-ho and a bottle of...]. Stir in nuts (if using) with a spoon. Pour into a greased loaf pan and Bake 1 hour.
Makes 1 standard sized loaf.

Now, try to share withe the rest of your crew, I know it's hard to stop eating it.

Banana Bread

This is the original recipe as it appears in Mom's Recipe box:

And this is what I translated it to:

Banana Bread
¾ cup sugar
½ cup shortening
2 eggs
2 large or 3 medium bananas
⅔ cup milk


2 ½ cups flour
1 tsp. Baking soda
1 tsp. Baking powder

350° F

Sift together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside. Cream together shortening and sugar. Add eggs, then bananas. Add flour mixture. Add milk. Pour in loaf pan Bake 1 hour.

But I can do better and Mom insists it calls for nuts, but I don't see them. Do you? So here's the edited version (with notes):

Banana Bread

¾ cup sugar
½ cup shortening [Mom insists on butter flavored Crisco® ]
2 eggs
2 large or 3 medium very ripe [we call them "giraffe-skin"] bananas to equal 1 cup mashed

2 ½ cups flour
1 tsp. Baking soda
1 tsp. Baking powder

⅔ cup milk
½ cup plus broken English walnuts (optional) [because Mom insists they're in there]

Preheat oven to 350° F.
Sift together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
Cream together shortening and sugar. Add eggs, then bananas.
Add flour mixture a little at a time, then add milk [be careful, it splatters]. Stir in nuts (if using) with a spoon. Pour in loaf pan and Bake 1 hour.Makes 1 standard sized loaf.

I am a Ditz

I am a tired, distracted, ditz. I have things I want to tell you all but I never seem to remember to post them so I'm going to try very hard to make at least one post a week from now on. First of all I'm going to be posting transcriptions of (and corrections to) family recipes. Some of these I will also post an "improved" or "updated" version if I come up with one. I will tag these as "heirloom" food and "newloom food". "Pirate" in a recipe name will mean it contains alcohol, usually rum, as will "drunken" and sometimes "Irish". I will also attempt to label recipes with allergy info for my sensitive friends.