Banana Bran Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 5 mins

Ingredients

• 5 bananas, very ripe
• 3 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup kellogg's all-bran cereal, original
• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 1/3 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/4 cup low-fat buttermilk or 1/4 cup sour milk
• 1 cup pecans

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350 degrees. grease or spray 2 8” x 4” loaf pans.
• 2 in a large bowl, mash bananas.
• 3 add eggs, vanilla, and applesauce and blend.
• 4 mash the bran cereal (not flakes) and mix with flour.
• 5 add remaining dry ingredients (except baking soda) and stir well.
• 6 dissolve baking soda in milk. put this in a container bigger than one cup. it will foam up a lot. [make sour milk by adding 1/2 teaspoon of vinegar].
• 7 add milk mixture to rest of ingredients and mix well.
• 8 fold in nuts and pour into greased pans.
• 9 bake for about 1 hour and 5 minutes depending on your oven. start checking for doneness at 55 minutes. (especially with pyrex pans)
• 10 for a moist bread, a toothpick should come out almost clean. totally clean will mean a dryer loaf.
• 11 after removing from oven, let cool for 15 minutes and remove from pans. bread will freeze nicely.