Zucchini Bread

If you send your husband to the store to get these ingredients, make sure he knows the difference between zucchini and cucumbers!

3 c all-purpose flour
1 t salt
1 t baking soda
1 t baking powder
2 1/2 t cinnamon
Sift all this in a bowl

3 eggs
1/2 c canola oil
1/2 c natural applesauce
1 c white sugar
1 c brown sugar
3 t vanilla extract
Beat in large bowl then add dry ingredients and mix

4 c grated zucchini
1 c chopped walnuts
Stir in

Pour batter into two greased and floured bread pans. Bake at 325 for 50-55 min. Cool on rack for 20 min. Remove from pan and cool completely before cutting.

Coconut Banana Bread

I found this on another blog and thought it looked yummy! I am going to try it this weekend...

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 sticks butter, softened
1/2 cup applesauce
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
3 large eggs (I used egg substitute)
1 tablespoon freshly grated lemon zest (I used 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract) optional
4 mashed ripe banana 3 tablespoons sour cream (I used light)
3/4 cup chopped macadamia nuts (Did not use) optional
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut

Preheat oven 350. Into a bowl sift together the flour, the baking powder, the baking soda, and the salt. In a large bowl with an electric mixer cream the butter with the sugar, applesauce, beat in the vanilla, the eggs, the zest, the banana, and the sour cream. Add the flour mixture, beat the batter until it is just combined, and stir in the macadamia nuts and the coconut. Pour the batter into greased muffin tin, Bake 15-18 mins or bread pan, Bake 40-50 mins

Grandma Udall's bread

Homemade bread is really made for toasting and eating with fresh apricot jam, we all know it's true! So this recipe is actually for toast, not bread! Use your Bosch if you have one. This recipe makes 5 loaves and takes a good 2 1/2 - 3 hours of your life.

Basic Recipe:
1 1/2 quarts of very warm water (about 6 cups)
2/3 c sugar
2/3 c oil
2 T salt
2 T yeast

Better if you add these:
1 c powder milk
1 c potato flakes
2 eggs

After all of this is mixed, you add "several" cups of flour. (My grandma doesn't measure so she doesn't know exactly how much flour you put in. I think I put about 8 in at this point.) I did 1 whole wheat for every 3 white cups of flour. Let dough stand for 20 min for yeast to start working. Add "remaining" flour, a little at a time, until dough isn't sticky. (Again, I dont know how many cups of flour total. Just keep adding and mixing!) Knead 8 min in Bosch or by hand.

If using Bosch, remove dough hooks and let dough rise about 30 minutes. Punch down. Turn out onto greased surface. Grease 5 pans with solid shortening. Shape into pans. Let rise until about double in size. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Let cool before bagging.

Margie's Banana Bread

3/4 C margarine or butter
1 1/2 C sugar
4-5 VERY ripe bananas
2 eggs
1/2 C buttermilk
1 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
2 C flour

*Mix everything together except the flour and slowly add flour to mixture. Put in greased loaf tins or muffin tins and bake at 375F 45-55 mins for big loaf tins, 30-40 mins for small loafs, 30 mins for muffins

This is the absolute BEST banana bread recipe I have ever used, I always add about 1/2-3/4C of chopped walnuts as well...so yummy!!