Letters to July// Day 10 (Grandma's Banana Bread)

 Dear July,

Everyone has a comfort food. The kind of food that when you bite into you feel like your transported to your childhood. Reminded of the giggles that went into the night,and the smiles that never wore down. For me, banana bread does just that. This is my great grandmother's recipe, and my mom has made it religiously whenever a banana got a tad bit too ripe. And because I can work with kitchen appliances without burning down the house now, I make it too. It's one of those recipes that you can completely wing and still get a delicious result. 

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

2 cups of all purpose flour

1 tsp of baking powder

3/4 cups of granulated sugar( I like using brown sugar)

3/4 cups of chocolate chips(optional)

6 tablespoons of milk

10 tablespoons of butter

1/4 cup of buttermilk

3 very ripe(the more ripe the better, the outside should be really spotty and the consistency of the banana really soft and mushy)

2 mixing bowls

loaf pan

Preheat the over at 200 degrees F for about fifteen minutes.

Melt the butter in the microwave so that it is soft.

Mix the milk, butter, and buttermilk in one bowl.

Mix the flour, salt, and baking powder in the other bowl.

Add sugar, chocolate chips, nuts (and anything else you want to add) to the flour mixture.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.

Add cinnamon and vanilla extract to the mixture(optional).

Pour the batter into a loaf pan.

Put it into the oven for 20 minutes and remember to check it every so often. The time in the oven can be more or less depending on how your oven heats up.

And voila!

You have got a delicious banana bread to enlighten your tastebuds. So enjoy a slice or two.

Bon appétit.

Love,

Ankita