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RecipeBreadsYield: 1 loaf (18 servings)Cook time: 70 min

Berry-Banana-Walnut Bread

Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), page 58. Vision transcription from the scanned page; needs review.

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Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup mashed strawberries or raspberries (about 1 1/2 cups whole berries)
  • 1/2 cup mashed ripe banana
  • 1/4 cup cooking oil
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons finely shredded orange peel
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts

Instructions

  1. In a bowl combine flour, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. In another bowl stir together eggs, sugar, mashed berries, banana, oil, and orange peel. Add to flour mixture, stirring just till combined. Stir in nuts.
  2. Pour into a greased 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Bake in a 350° oven for 60 to 70 minutes or till a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes. Remove from pan; cool on a rack. Wrap and store overnight.
  3. Blueberry-Banana-Walnut Bread: Prepare as above, except omit strawberries or raspberries and stir in 1 cup fresh or frozen whole blueberries with the nuts.

Source and image provenance

Historical recipe source: Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), Meredith Corporation. View the cited page at the Internet Archive.

Image credit: Image attribution: "Walnut-Bourbon Banana Bread loaf and slices on a plate.jpg" by Whitney; license: CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walnut-Bourbon_Banana_Bread_loaf_and_slices_on_a_plate.jpg. Representative photo; cropped/resized.

Community edition: The recipe was transcribed and formatted for interoperability with Nextcloud Cookbook. Review the historical scan before relying on measurements or instructions.

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