Banana Bread and Blackberry Jam - Yum

It was a long weekend so my husband and I went to Mt. Tabor, picked blackberries, made homemade freezer jam and then I got up on Monday to work on my latest WIP, using my laptop - in the kitchen. And, while I was sitting there, I baked some banana bread.


I'm giving away an old family secret to making the most fantastic banana bread (Shhh!)(we learned it because, with 9 kids, Mom never wasted anything). The trick to moist, delicious banana bread is to use overripe (and by that I mean almost rotten) bananas.

Banana Bread:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 t baking soda
1/4 t baking powder

6 T butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 large eggs
2 overripe (almost spoiled) bananas

Mix and bake in a bread pan (lightly greased and floured) for 1 hour at 350

YUMMY!

Blackberry Freezer jam

1 quart fresh berries
5 cups sugar (if the berries are very ripe, you can cut this to 3 cups)
(Mix berries and sugar well)

Then mix berries with pectin mixture (which is 3/8 cup boiling water with pectin) I prefer the Ball freezer jam pectin - but you can use whatever you like. You have to cook the pectin and water together on high (stirring constantly) bring to a boil for one minute, then pour into berry mixture. Stir well for 3 minutes, then pour in plastic containers (can be tupperware or whatever you have) and put lid on. Can last for 1 year in freezer, 3 weeks in refrigerator but mine never makes it much past a week - not in my house.

Even YUMMIER!