Recipe: Barbara’s Plantain Nut Bread (adapted from the Joy of Cooking)
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
| One loaf | 3 loaves | Ingredients |
| 1/3c | 1c | butter (shortening) |
| 2/3c | 2c | sugar |
| 1/4tsp | 3/4tsp | lemon juice (lemon rind) |
| 13/4c | 5 1/4c | flour |
| 2 1/4tsp | 6 3/4tsp | baking powder |
| 1/2tsp | 1 1/2tsp | salt |
| 1-2 | 5-6 | eggs beaten |
| 1 1/3c | 4c | mashed fried plantains (bananas) |
| 1/2c | 1 1/2c | chopped pecans |
| 1/2c | 1 1/2c | chocolate chips (optional) |
- Cream together butter and sugar
- Mix in lemon juice and eggs
- In separate bowl, mix flour, salt and baking powder
- Slice and fry plantains then mash it up to a pulp
- Mix plantain with butter-sugar-eggs
- Gradually add flour mixing well
- When all flour is mixed in, add chopped nuts (and chocolate chips)
- Mix well
- Bake 1 hour 350 degrees