Banana Sour Cream Bread

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 cup butter
• 3 cups white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 6 very ripe bananas, mashed
• 1 (16 ounce) container sour cream
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons baking soda
• 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease four 7x3 inch loaf pans. In a small bowl, stir together 1/4 cup white sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Dust pans lightly with cinnamon and sugar mixture.
2. In a large bowl, cream butter and 3 cups sugar. Mix in eggs, mashed bananas, sour cream, vanilla and cinnamon. Mix in salt, baking soda and flour. Stir in nuts. Divide into prepared pans.
3. Bake for 1 hour, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Homemade Biscuits

 

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons shortening
• 1 cup buttermilk, chilled

Directions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (The faster the better, you don't want the fats to melt.) Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.

Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the dough. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap dough, working it as little as possible and continue cutting. (Biscuits from the second pass will not be quite as light as those from the first, but hey, that's life.)

Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes.

Blueberry Banana Oat Bread

Ingredients:

2 1/4 cups biscuit mix
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup quick cooking oats
1 cup mashed very ripe banana ( 2 medium)
1/4 cup milk
2 eggs
1 cup fresh or frozen (thawed and drained) blueberries

Instructions:

Heat over to 350 degress F.  Grease bottom only of loaf pan with shortening.

Stir biscuit mix, sugar, oats, bananas, milk and eggs in large bowl until moistened; beat vigorously 30 seconds.  Gently stir in blueberries.  Pour into pan.

Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  Cool 10 minutes.  Loosen loaf from sides of pan; remove from pan and place top side up on wire rack.  Cool completely, about 2 hours before slicing.  1 loaf ( 24 slices)

Homemade Light Bread

Here is a great recipe to make bread. This is one of my all time favorites. Hope you enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 package yeast
1/2 cup warm water
1/2 teaspoon sugar
2 cups warm water
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons salt

Instructions:

Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup warm water.  Add 1/2 teaspoon sugar.  Let sit 40 minutes.  Cream 1/2 cup shortening and 1/2 cup sugar; add to your yeast mixture.  Add 2 cups warm water and enough flour to make a thick dough.  Let rise about double in bulk.  Work down again and them let it double itself again.  Set oven to 425 degrees F.  When heated, bake 15 minuts at 425 degrees F and then reduce heat to 375 degrees F.  Bake 30 minutes. Makes 2 large loaves.