Banana bread

Banana bread is a cake.

Ingredients and production

It is, depending on the recipe, made ​​from crushed bananas, wheat flour, sugar, baking powder, butter, milk and egg or soy milk or tofu. As further ingredients nuts, raisins or dates and spices ( cinnamon or vanilla) can be used. Banana bread is usually baked in a loaf pan and served sliced.

Due to the high content of carbohydrates, it can serve as an energy source during endurance sports.

History

Banana bread is relatively quick and easy to prepare and especially popular in the United States. When it was just invented, is not known. It might already have been the end of the 18th century, when potash came as a leavening agent in use. Contradicted by the fact that it was not explicitly mentioned in the first printed in the USA cookbook of 1796. In addition, bananas were not available until 1880 in large quantities on the market because there was previously due to lack of cooling facilities problems during transport and storage. Sure detected banana bread is a recipe in a baking book from the year 1933. Later, numerous modifications were developed and also finished baking mixes on the market.