And a quickbread

I don't really have a recipe as such for banana loaf: how many bananas I need to use up, what else I have on hand, and my general mood tend to vary too widely.

This is what I did tonight:

Preheat your oven to 350.

Mash together:

3 overripe bananas
1/4 C butter

1 teaspooon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 1/2 teaspoons Magic baking powder

To this add

3 C white flour, unsifted
2 C rolled oats

When the resulting mixture is fairly evenly mixed, add

1 1/2 C cool water

and mix it just enough to get the liquid evenly distributed all the way through.

Scrape your dough into a well-greased loaf pan and bake it for 60 minutes. Knock on the crust to see if it sounds hollow, poke it with a skewer in the centre to see if it comes back clean. If need be, give it ten more minutes and check it again.

Turn it out onto a wire rack to cool.

Makes a dense loaf with a crisp crust, moist insides, and a mild, somewhat nutty, not-too-sweet and not-too-fruity flavour, which I think will be very good for breakfast, possibly not so much an afternoon-snack bread.