Mrs. Myers's Sweet and Moist Banana Bread (AKA The BEST Banana Bread)
Alexandra Stafford · alexandracooks.com · 2012 · 2 loaves
Against 708 banana bread recipes
More banana than 89% of recipes and less leavening than 98%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More banana than 89% of recipes: 234% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 148%.
- Less leavening than 98% of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.5%, about half as much.
- More sugar than 88% of recipes: 110% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 78%.
- More egg than 87% of recipes: 59% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
Ingredients (10)
- 2 cups (424 g) sugar424 g
- 1 cup (226 g) butter, softened226 g
- 3 cups (384 g) sifted flour (or not … I never sift)384 g
- 1 tsp. baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1 tsp. table salt or 1.5 teaspoons kosher salt≈ 4 g
- 4 to 5 eggs, see notes above≈ 225 g
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 1 cup nuts, optional (I never add nuts)≈ 120 g
- 1/2 cup buttermilk≈ 122 g
- 1 quart mashed bananas, about 6 to 8 (ripe to overripe)≈ 900 g
flour 384 gbatter 2419 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 708 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Banana234% · 90th percentile · median 148%
- Sugar110% · 89th percentile · median 78%
- Fat59% · 81st percentile · median 45%
- Egg59% · 87th percentile · median 40%
- Dairy32% · 66th percentile · median 15%
- Leavening1.6% · 2nd percentile · median 3.5%
- Salt1% · 50th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 minutes
- median 55 minutes
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