Friday, 23 February is National Banana Bread Day
Try your hand at anyone of the fabulous banana bread recipes you can find.
Banana bread is made with ripe, mashed bananas. Some recipes use yeast but then it is often sliced, toasted and spread with butter.
The popularisation of baking soda and baking powder in the 1930s made banana bread popular in American cookbooks.
In Hawaii during World War I, there was a surplus of bananas due to very few ships leaving the port to export the fruit. So to waste the fruit, alternative uses for bananas were developed and bakeries started incorporating the fruit into their bread.
How to observe
To have some fun on National Banana Bread Day, try your hand at anyone of the fabulous banana bread recipes you can find.
History
Unfortunately the creator of National Banana Bread Day cannot be found.
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