Banana Muffins

The easiest and fastest recipes in the "Bread Bible" are the recipes in the "Quick breads" chapter, made with baking powder and/or soda instead of yeast. You just stir the all the ingredients together, pour the batter into a baking container and bake. I tried out the banana muffins. Great moist sweet little morsels made with mashed banana, lemon zest and some vanilla as well.

My only objection to this recipe (and that goes for all recipes in the Bread Bible) is that the quantities they turn out are really small. The banana muffin recipe is for 5 American sized muffins (that means 10 Swedish sized ones) - that's nothing! Me and my son gobble that up in a sitting, just the two of us. The bread recipes are normally for just one loaf. Ms Beranbaum says the quantities are small because baked goods are best fresh, right out of the owen. She has a point there, but I still think it's advisable to multiply the quantities and freeze what's not eaten within a day or so if you don't have the time or energy to bake every day.