When is National Banana Bread Day?
Thursday February 23rdEvery year, National Banana Bread Day, a well-known food holiday, is celebrated on February 23rd.
Bakers know that to make sweet and delicious banana bread, they must use completely ripe, mashed bananas.. The resulting quick bread is both moist and almost cake-like. And although some recipes call for yeast, most don't. Either way, the finished product makes a delectable sliced snack. For an even more satisfying treat, toast it and add butter.
Baking soda and baking powder made banana bread and other quick breads common features in American cookbooks in the 1930s.. In its 1933 Balanced Recipes cookbook, Pillsbury's included banana bread recipes.' The banana bread's acceptance was further enhanced by the publication of Chiquita Banana's Recipe Book in 1950.
Bans first appeared in the United States in 1870, surprisingly. For a long time, Americans saw the tropical fruit as just that – a fruit, not an ingredient. The banana's potential would take a few decades before they started seeing the banana's potential.
