I was reminded of Paul Simon’s iconic hit as I was making banana bread the other day. I’m quickly finding that there are at least fifty ways to make the sweet treat. (If you want to relive a bit of Paul Simon’s performance of Fifty Ways in the Central Park Concert while you make your banana bread, here is a link: Paul Simon. Watch out, though.You’ll be singing it for the rest of the day.)
I know that I recently posted a banana bread recipe.
Bear with me.
There is a new development on the banana bread front that you will definitely want to look at if you are a banana bread diva (or divo).
Believe it or not, King Arthur Flour’s site has posted a template that allows you to fill in the ingredients you want to put into your banana bread and the site then calculates the proper amount you’ll need of each ingredient. You can find the link here. Is that cool or what?
Also, I’ve found a new banana bread recipe I want to share. Actually, it is banana banana bread. (No. That’s not a typo.) It really IS banana banana bread. (This recipe is adapted from one you’ll find on the Genius Kitchen site here .)
I confess that the recipe did pique my interest because of the repetitive title. Grammarians have a term for this type of repetitive use of words. It’s contrastive focus reduplication. (You know grammarians. They have to make things sound hard!) Using this construction, the double mention of banana gives emphasis to the strength of the banana ingredient in the bread. It’s not just banana bread. It’s banana banana bread! If you want to throw this bit of grammatical trivia around at your next dinner party, be my guest. Really cool cool grammarians us the term CR, by the way.
You don’t need to be coy about making this banana bread recipe. It’s really good.
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