Recipe: Sourdough Banana Nut Bread

Sourdough marries well with fruity and sweet quick breads such as banana bread.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Wild Culture Sourdough Starter, active and at room temperature
• 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1/2 cup firmly backed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup salad oil
• 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 3 small bananas)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon peel
• 1 cup chopped nuts (pecans, walnuts)
• 1 cup raisins

Directions:

1. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a small ball.  Mix well.  Set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, add egg, sugars, and oil and beat until well blended.
3. Beat sourdough starter, bananas, vanilla, and lemon peel into the egg mixture.
4. Then stir the nuts and raisins into the sourdough-egg mixture.
5. Combine the dry and wet ingredients, mixing just until blended.
6. Turn batter into a well-greased 9 by 5-inch loaf pan.  Bake in a preheated 350 F. degrees oven (325 F. for glass pan) for about 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
7. Let loaf cool in pan on a rack for about 10 minutes, then turn out onto rack to cool completely.

Servings: Makes 1 loaf

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