How Do You Use Up Those Left-Over Cranberries In A Banana Bread Treat?
Ocean Spray fresh cranberries are easy to prepare: the directions are right on the package. But what if you have some left over? Just toss them out? Not if you also have some rotten bananas lying around! This is a real treat, discovered on a whim when I thought I’d just blend old berries in with a basic banana bread recipe. Follow the recipe in THE JOY OF COOKING, but make these alterations. You can obviously substitute your own basic banana bread recipe or look one up online. Bake for an hour and twenty minutes. Use a full cup of sugar. Use a full stick of butter (preferably non-salted, and margarine will work in a pinch). I add about five to six, virtually completely rotted, medium sized bananas. The easiest way to do this is to use a knife to cut off the end with the stem (just below the stem’s end), and then squeeze the insides of it into your batter. Don’t worry; it’s delicious even though it looks disgusting. After you fold the bananas in, add the cranberries together with any le
