Old Fashioned Banana Bread Like Your Grandmother Made

his old fashioned banana bread recipe is so simple anyone can make it.

Although I love to profess that I don’t like sweets, some things I do like and old fashioned banana bread is one of them.

My grandmother was a terrible cook. But she had a repertoire of 7 things she could make better than anyone else: mashed potatoes, shrimp dip, turkey dressing, Nova Scotia fish chowder, apple pie, banana bread and cherry balls.

She made old fashioned banana bread. It wasn’t eggless, like the trend is now. It wasn’t healthy. But it was SO moist and it tasted like it was full of banana.

And it’s one of those sweets that we miss now that she’s gone.

Classic banana bread recipe cooling on a wire rack

Old Fashioned Banana Bread
I’d love to take credit for this recipe but I didn’t write it.

In fact I didn’t even make it.

As I was working away in my room writing when I heard my mother tinkering in the kitchen.

It caught my attention because my mother hates to cook (although she makes great pineapple carrot muffins), so what was she up to?

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