Sourdough Banana Bread

Susan Reid · kingarthurbaking.com · 16

Against 708 banana bread recipes

More salt than 96% of recipes and more sugar than 75%.

How it compares

Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.

More salt than 96% of recipes: 2.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%, about 2.5 times as much.
More sugar than 75% of recipes: 95% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 78%.
No dairy at all, where 54% of recipes use some (most of those 25 to 60% of the flour weight).

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

8 tablespoons (113g) unsalted butter, at cool room temperature113 g
2/3 cup (142g) light brown sugar or dark brown sugar, packed142 g
1 teaspoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 4.2 g
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg≈ 0.7 g
1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
1 teaspoon table salt≈ 6 g
1 3/4 cups (397g) mashed ripe banana, from about 1 3/4 pounds unpeeled bananas397 g
1/4 cup (85g) honey85 g
2 large eggs≈ 100 g
1/2 cup (113g) sourdough starter, unfed/discard*113 g
2 cups (240g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour240 g
3/4 cup (85g) chopped nuts, optional85 g

flour 240 gbatter 1299 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 708 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: banana, sugar, fat, egg, dairy, leavening, salt.