Banana Nut Bread Recipe

Amish Banana Nut Bread

INGREDIENTS
2/3 Cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sifted cake flour *** how to make cake flour below
1 2/3 cups sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups mashed, very ripe banana
2/3 cup milk divided (calls for buttermilk, but I never have any!)
2 eggs
2/3 cup chopped walnuts

DIRECTIONS
Stir shortening to soften. Sift dry ingredients into the same bowl. Add bananas and half of the milk. Mix until all the flour is dampened. Beat vigorously for 2 minutes. Add remaining milk and eggs. Beat 2 minutes longer. Fold in slightly floured nuts. Bake in 2 lightly greased loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-55 minutes. Or until a toothpick comes out clean. Can also be baked in an 8-inch square cake pan or as cupcakes.

***  To make cake flour: For each cup of cake flour called for, use regular flour, but remove 1 1/2 tablespoons of regular flour and replace it with an equal amount of corn starch. Mix together well, then sift.

From AMISH COMMUNITY COOKBOOK

My Amish Banana Bread

Piper here. I had such a fun afternoon. My best friend and writing partner, Lily Simmons sent me a fab cookbook for my birthday called Amish Community Cookbook. I've found so many recipes I want to try, but I was given some ripe bananas so of course, they turned into banana bread. It's like 1:30 in the a.m. so I'll post the recipe tomorrow. The bread is soft and wonderful and it's making me want to eat another piece, but heavens, not at this time in the morning! Nighty night all!

Livers, Gizzards and Hearts OH MY!

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IN PLAIN SIGHT

BY

PIPER FORREST AND LILY SIMMONS

I’m Carly Laine and do I ever need a rest. My last case was heart-wrenching, so where better to go than to an Amish Bed and Breakfast? I picked the first one that popped up on my computer screen. Little did I know I’d be neck deep in kidnapping and murder.

I am Ruby Troyer. My son Matthew and I own a large Amish Farm Stay, the Englisch call a Bed and Breakfast, but ours comes with a farm tour and buggy rides. Our border, Carly Laine is a trained detective, here to take a good rest. Instead, the poor dear helps in our kitchens providing meals for the men searching for our missing girls. For sure and for certain, Carly hasn’t had much rest. Carly and I become fast friends, but she drags me, a quiet Amish woman, along in her search for the truth. One we never saw coming.

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