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Is banana bread an American thing? Do yuros make it? I've never really seen anyone post about it

>> No.12151333

>>12151328
Have you ever seen a banana tree in fucking Sweden?

>> No.12151336

>>12151333
There arent banana trees in my state but I still eat them ya prick

>> No.12151349

>>12151333
Are bananas expensive in Europe?

>> No.12151373

No not a thing in europe, same as cornbread not a thing here.

>> No.12151379

>>12151349
maybe

>> No.12151410

Yeah it’s around but it’s not that popular.
>>12151333
You fucking weirdos put banana on pizza so I’m sure there are enough to make banana bread.

>> No.12151418

in england it's a common easy thing to bake, can't say either way for the continent

>> No.12151432

>>12151328
Im an American and banna bread is just one of those things that happen because you have bananas that get too ripe and you’re in the mood for something sweet. Real easy to bake and I’ll even freeze ripe bananas for later when I wanna cook it.

>> No.12151434

>>12151418
Looks like the Brits are really bending over the third worlders for banana prices. They're cheaper in England than they are at Sam's club in America.

>> No.12151440

>>12151349
£0.76 per kg in England

>> No.12151447

>>12151440
https://www.samsclub.com/sams/bananas-3-lbs/156801.ip They have us beat by 4 pennies.

>> No.12151506

>>12151440
No fucking clue what that alien talk is faggot

>> No.12151522

>>12151432
Same. Its fucking incredible with butter

>> No.12151523

why are bananas so cheap compared to every other fruit?

>> No.12151590

>>12151523
Maybe the yield per tree is fairly large. Or they could be easy to harvest.

>> No.12151606

>>12151523
probably easy to harvest and built in packaging/good shelf life helps.

>> No.12151626

Any banana muffins fans in?

>> No.12152368

>>12151626
Banana walnut muffins are only second to lemon poppyseed

>> No.12152504

>banana muffins without choccy chips

>> No.12152670

What nut goes well in it? I'm no fan of walnuts, maybe pecan?

>> No.12152867

I like banana bread

>> No.12153355

>>12151328
I'm from Ireland and both my mother and sister make it, and it's a family favourite.
Sometimes my sister will bake me a loaf and even makes me a little container of cream cheese frosting.

>> No.12153367

>>12151333
maybe

>> No.12153398

>>12151328
Americans make road trips to buy groceries so they often overbuy. Many also prefer underripe bananas and are afraid of any that will be fully ripe in three days.

>> No.12153417

>>12151328
We have it in Australia. Yummy.

>>12151626
Yes, delicious. Though I wish they were more available here

>> No.12153530

>>12153417
Wow, Australians is so impressive and exotic and you have all these things like cake and muffins. Amazing.

>> No.12153534

>>12151328

My cunt wife makes it sometimes. Regards, Ireland.

>> No.12153630
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12153630

Haven't even heard of it before. Muesli bread is popular.

>> No.12153640

>>12151523
We own the people that grow them

>> No.12153668

>>12151333
>>12151336
What the fuck is a banana tree? I'm pretty sure bananas grow underground like carrots.

>> No.12153833

>>12153668
Bananas grow on palm trees

>> No.12153851

>>12153668
>>12153833
the bananas we are all familiar with do not grow in the wild as they have no way of reproducing. they only persist because humans grow and maintain them. enjoy them while you can because all it would take is a few hurricanes hitting some islands full of shitskins and they’d all be wiped out.

>> No.12153863

>>12151522
But then you realize you can dip it in some egg and cinnamon and make french toast with it and your life changes forever.

>> No.12153866

>>12153833
>literally never heard anyone call banana plants palm trees
>look it up and there are actually people who believe it

>> No.12153867

>>12151523
Because the business of bananna growing has been refined to an absolute science. Also legal not-slavery.

>> No.12153871

>>12153833
Technically they're not trees becuase they don't have an inner woody core.

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>>12153630
As fortune would have it, I baked some banana bread recently in the fml thread. Let me give you Yuropoors the recipe. Would try to convert to metric but I don’t really know how you people measure ingredients.

>3 or 4 overripe bannas, frozen and then thawed out
>2 cups flour
>1 teaspoon baking soda
>1/4 teaspoon salt
>3/4 cup brown sugar plus more for topping
>1/2 cup chopped walnuts
>2 eggs
>1/2 cup softened butter
>cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice to taste


Preheat your oven to 350F(175C). Cream together the brown sugar and butter. Mash peeled bananas and combine with butter/sugar mixture, eggs, and spices. Mix until well combined. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Add in the wet ingredients and walnuts. Mix until just combined, don’t over-mix. Pour into a loaf pan greased with more butter. Bake for 30 minutes, then top with a few pads of butter, brown sugar, and more spices to taste. Bake an additional 20-30 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Let it cool a little before slicing, serve with butter and coffee or tea. As for the spices, I do about a teaspoon each except for the cinnamon, which I use about 3 teaspoons of.

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>>12153921
Fuck wrong picture

>> No.12154134

>>12153921
No problem, really. For "cup" I can use "a little over 2 1/4 dl" as starting point. For oz: "28 grams."

By the way, I googled banana bread and here and only one recipe had any spice other than cinnamon, on the other hand about half of them called for buttermilk. That's why it's always nice to get a recipe that a local thinks is representative of the product.

>> No.12154142

>>12153921
Aldi shopper spotted.

>> No.12154155

>>12154134
Most people don’t use spices other than cinnamon, but most internet recipes are effectively reposts of Great Depression era recipes from when such things where harder to come by. I feel that nutmeg, allspice, and cloves add dimension to the bread that makes it better. A bit of heat to contrast the sweetness.

>> No.12154213

>>12154155
I'm totally blogging now, but I have to comment on the internet recipes:
I've been interested of recreating poutine and so have looked how to make curds and fucking every recipe out there calls for calcium chloride and C201 culture. Obviously these are applied from recipes meant for making aged cheese and passed down by people who don't have half a brain cell to think.

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>>12153863

>> No.12154262

>>12154142
It’s cheap and the quality is decent to good. I only shop at other stores for beer and specialty ingredients.

>> No.12154364

>>12154262
Same. I dont see much of a quality difference from normal grocery store, although aldis is lacking in the pickle department

>> No.12154459

>>12154364
Check the deli section, they have some refrigerated pickles that are dank as fuck if you can beat the soccer moms to them.

>> No.12154593

>>12153851
Are you stupid? Bananas grow everywhere in the Caribbean, no help needed. Fuck off

>> No.12156037

>>12152670
Needs to be a soft nut. Pecan might work. Walnut works because it's so soft even when roasted. I get a histamine reaction to walnut skin but the texture just works so good.

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>>12153863

>> No.12156482

>>12151333
Never seen a banana tree in the northernmost part of America either and yet we still eat them, faggot

>> No.12156490

>>12151523
What >>12153640 and >>12153867 said. Don't look up the growing conditions unless you wanna be depressed.

>> No.12156498

>>12151328
Frog here, never made any and never heard of it before /ck/. I'll make one someday I guess, I like bananas so it has my attention
and as the other guy said, same goes for cornbread

>> No.12156516

Red pill me on zucchini bread

>> No.12156556

>>12151328
I'm in the UK and my family makes banana bread occasionally, to use up old and shitty bananas.

>> No.12156578

>>12153851
even if that were true do you really think they don't have seeds stored somewhere safe for an occasion just like that?

>> No.12156820

>>12156516
It's pretty good but just something you make when you grew too many zukes. Banana>Corn>Zuke breads.

>> No.12156833

>>12156516
what >>12156820 said. I'd advise you to try it though if you're growing them or get some on sale. it's very moist. classmate's mom made zucchini brownies once, they were top notch.

>> No.12156916

>>12153871
Yeah AFAIK they're a big herb