Banana Bread

This is definitely the best Banana Bread I have ever tasted, and I can't take any credit for the recipe at all.


Eugene had some ripened bananas at work and brought them home with the intention of making a simple banana loaf. After some searching he found a nice recipe and began to put all the ingredients together..... a little bit of substituting and adjustments began when he ran out of some ingredients, and made up for it with others. The end product is pretty great.. the inside is dense and moist without being too wet like some become, and the exterior is chewy and crisp when it is first out of the oven. After its been wrapped up to gift to friends and coworkers it does become less chewy, but no less tasty. I've actually had several people urging me to post this recipe quickly so they could try it themselves. I really wanted to try the adjusted version again just to see if the end result was reproducible... and it was!

Recipe

3C Flour
1tsp Baking Soda
3/4tsp Salt
3 Eggs
2C Sugar
1C+4Tbsp Vegetable Oil
1/4C Melted Butter
1Tbsp Vanilla
3 Bananas
1C Dessicated Coconut
1C Chopped Pecans
1/2C Milk


*Mix flour, baking soda, and salt.
*Beat eggs, sugar, melted butter, and oil.
*Add flour mixture
*Mix in vanilla, banana, coconut, nuts and milk
*Do not over mix
*Divide batter between two floured pans and
bake at 350 until tester comes out clean
(90 min in my oven)

Eugene prefers this recipe with 2Tbsp of Vanilla, and I like
it with just one..... you can arm wrestle yourself over
how much to put in!