Name: Avis sur Banana Bread par diloyloyy chez Mogador Cafe, Haarlem, Pays-Bas
Item: Banana Bread
Rating: 4.3
Author: diloyloyy

Banana bread is an American quick bread: a dense, moist loaf leavened with baking soda rather than yeast, built on mashed overripe bananas, sugar, egg, butter or oil and flour, baked in a rectangular tin and eaten in slices at breakfast or with coffee. It belongs to the family of soda-leavened loaves that appeared once chemical leaveners became cheap in the nineteenth century, and the banana version became a household standard in the 1930s, when the fruit was plentiful, the Depression made throwing away black bananas unthinkable, and baking-powder companies printed the recipe in their booklets. It is a bread in name only; by sugar and fat content it is a cake, and it is the thing most people bake first. Walnuts or pecans and chocolate chips are the standard additions, and café versions add a crumb topping, a cream-cheese swirl or a sliced banana laid along the top.

The bananas are the whole flavour and they have to be far past the eating stage: skins black or heavily spotted, flesh soft and smelling strongly, which gives sugar, moisture and the taste. Three or four are mashed with a fork, leaving some texture, and mixed with melted butter, sugar, often brown sugar for a deeper note, an egg and vanilla; the dry ingredients, flour, baking soda, salt and sometimes cinnamon, are folded in with as few strokes as possible, because overmixing develops gluten and gives a tough, tunnelled loaf. The batter goes into a buttered loaf tin and bakes at around 175°C for fifty to sixty-five minutes, longer than most cakes, until a skewer in the centre comes out clean and the top has cracked along its length; the long bake is why underdone centres are the most common fault. It rests in the tin for ten minutes before turning out and is better the next day.

A good slice is moist, tender and heavy for its size, evenly brown with a darker, slightly crisp crust and a crack along the top, and it tastes clearly of banana with the sugar and butter behind it. The crumb should be close and soft with no gummy or wet band near the bottom and no large tunnels. Mark down a loaf that is dry and crumbly, which means too much flour or too long in the oven, one that is dense and wet at the base from underbaking or too much banana, a pale, bland loaf made with yellow bananas, a loaf that tastes mainly of cinnamon or sugar, and a café slice that has been toasted and buttered to hide staleness. Nuts and chocolate are legitimate additions; a cream-cheese frosting turns it into a cake and should be judged as one.

Banana Bread

Netherlands

Mogador Cafe

Banana bread was fresh and tasty, not too much sugar just in limit, coffee is great as always! Well spent sunny day in Haarlem:)

Avis sur Banana Bread par diloyloyy chez Mogador Cafe, Haarlem, Pays-Bas

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