How long can you keep saved frozen bananas for banana bread?
linnea56 (zone 5b Chicago)
12 years ago
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Comments (4)Thank you for your help and interest. How do I find out the zone? I live at present in Ireland, same weather as UK England but up in the Wicklow hills just South of Dublin; so it is a bit cooler. If we have any snow a little usually falls in March but only a few inches and goes within a week. I have them on the bathroom floor at present on newspapers and thought since the house is pretty warm I might put one in a big pot then outside for the summer. I plan to fly the other two smaller ones, which will fit into a suitcase, to Southern Portugal where I have a house, it is much warmer there and can get very hot but not humid. We never have any frost where I am there. Two have two small pups about the size of a very small orange.The third has been cut with a good hunk out of the parent. One pup is showing a 1" green spike in the 10 days we have been back from the Bahamas where I was given them. They were very mushy and hot after the long journey back here but have dried out since and I can see a small green center to all of them(but a bit black at the tip)where they have been cut off Should I cut this very small(half inch black off)? The stems are quite solid. One more question you may be able to answer,since I have been reading a lot of the forums is:- As the bananas are growing, it seems they have purple pendulous type flower hanging at the bottom of the hand. Am I correct in thinking this is the male flower and should it be cut off and at what stage, if at all. I also read that you can eat that. Wendy...See MoreHow long to keep frozen fruit & Veg.?
Comments (2)If it has frost in the bags, then there are several issues. 1. A self-frosting freezer is much harder on food storage and the life of whatever you freeze is shorter. 2. The packaging isn't sufficiently airtight. As far as the food is concerned, it's totally up to you whether it's salvageable or not. In most cases when it's severely frosted and/or freezer-burned it's lost nutrition, texture and taste. But sometimes foods can be used or "disguised" if you want to give it a try. For example, blueberries in smoothies, winter squash in breads or soups, zucchini and cabbage in soups. There are no food safety issues so you get to assess the palatibility. Carol...See MoreDry banana bread....why?
Comments (15)The recipe I use does have lemon juice as well as sour cream, so that helps with the problem of lack of acidity in very ripe bananas, which seems to be all I ever have. I do agree that King Arthur AP flour is high protein and it takes some adjusting when using it for something like quick breads. Right now I have King Arthur AP and Whole Wheat, some Bob's Red Mill Rye, some Swansdown cake flour, some White Lily and plain old Gold Medal. I also have cornmeal, both white and yellow and THREE kinds of oats, LOL, the "quick", the regular 5 minute oats and some steel cut. I also have wheat berries that I've been grinding for flour for bread. My pantry looks like I could open a bulk food store. I use the King Arthur for bread, the cake flour was a leftover from the last wedding cake I baked, I get picky about those. The White Lily is for biscuits, the Gold Medal for everything else. Two kinds of cornmeal because Elery is from Tennessee and his sister says it isn't cornbread if it's yellow, although I don't particularly care which color it is. In short, I'm also going to blame it on your flour, or on overbaking. If you are using new pans and they are glass ones, I'd be watching the bread carefully to be certain it is not overbaking, and probably be using a thermometer a couple of times until I get used to the new pans. Oh, and Christine, I also have the smaller Danish Dough Whisk, it gets used regularly. Annie...See MoreGlenda--frozen pb chocolate covered bananas
Comments (3)DD's latest favorite breakfast is me making her a PB grilled sandwich. Butter one side each of 2 slices of bread (we like honey wheat) Stick the 2 buttered sides together so you can spread PB on the exposed plain side of one slice. Put that slice on the griddle butter side down and sprinkle chocolate chips on the PB which is facing up. Add the other slice on top butter side up and grill like a grilled cheese. DD doesn't like bananas but I bet it would be great to add banana slices!!...See Morehappyday
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