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Best Bread Recipes

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The Homemade Bread Cookbook

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Contents

Banana Bonanza Bread

This recipe serves 1. Ready in 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
3. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.
4. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar.
5. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended.
6. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten.
7. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
8. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean.
9. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

Nutrition:

• Calories: 229 kcal
• Carbohydrates: 34.8 g
• Cholesterol: 51 mg
• Fat: 8.8 g
• Fiber: 1.7 g
• Protein: 3.8 g
• Sodium: 223 mg

Perfect Pumpkin Bread

This recipe serves 3. Ready in 1 hour and 5 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2/3 cup water
• 3 cups white sugar
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans.
3. In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended.
4. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger.
5. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended.
6. Pour into the prepared pans.
7. Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven.
8. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Nutrition:

• Calories: 263 kcal
• Carbohydrates: 40.6 g
• Cholesterol: 31 mg
• Fat: 10.3 g
• Fiber: 1.1 g
• Protein: 3.1 g
• Sodium: 305 mg

Zesty Zucchini Bread

This recipe serves 2. Ready in 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2 1/4 cups white sugar
• 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups grated zucchini
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

1. Grease and flour two 8 x 4 inch pans.
2. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
3. Sift flour, salt, baking powder, soda, and cinnamon together in a bowl.
4. Beat eggs, oil, vanilla, and sugar together in a large bowl.
5. Add sifted ingredients to the creamed mixture, and beat well.
6. Stir in zucchini and nuts until well combined. Pour batter into prepared pans.
7. Bake for 40 to 60 minutes, or until tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
8. Cool in pan on rack for 20 minutes.
9. Remove bread from pan, and completely cool.

Nutrition:

• Calories: 255 kcal
• Carbohydrates: 32.1 g
• Cholesterol: 23 mg
• Fat: 13.1 g
• Fiber: 1 g
• Protein: 3.3 g
• Sodium: 180 mg

Best Buttermilk Cornbread

This recipe serves 9. Ready in 55 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup cornmeal
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Grease an 8 inch square pan.
3. Melt butter in large skillet.
4. Remove from heat and stir in sugar.
5. Quickly add eggs and beat until well blended.
6. Combine buttermilk with baking soda and stir into mixture in pan.
7. Stir in cornmeal, flour, and salt until well blended and few lumps remain.
8. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
9. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Nutrition:

• Calories: 284 kcal
• Carbohydrates: 39.1 g
• Cholesterol: 59 mg
• Fat: 12.2 g
• Fiber: 1 g
• Protein: 4.8 g
• Sodium: 318 mg

Sour Cream Banana Bread

This recipe serves 4. Ready in 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 cup butter
• 3 cups white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 6 very ripe bananas, mashed
• 1 (16 ounce) container sour cream
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons baking soda
• 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
2. Grease four 7x3 inch loaf pans.
3. In a small bowl, stir together 1/4 cup white sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon.
4. Dust pans lightly with cinnamon and sugar mixture.
5. In a large bowl, cream butter and 3 cups sugar.
6. Mix in eggs, mashed bananas, sour cream, vanilla and cinnamon.
7. Mix in salt, baking soda and flour.
8. Stir in nuts.
9. Divide into prepared pans.
10. Bake for 1 hour, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Nutrition:

• Calories: 263 kcal
• Carbohydrates: 40.1 g
• Cholesterol: 35 mg
• Fat: 10.4 g
• Fiber: 1.4 g