Banana Bread #2

This banana bread is from a cook book published by an Australian company that claims to triple test all their recipes in their test kitchens. I'd like to see the results of this recipe - triple tested. This one is not good.

The Pictures

A bit too golden brown for my liking

Nice looking inside, but a very small loaf.

The Recipe

1 ¼ C SR flour
1 t cinnamon
20g butter
½ C firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg, beaten lightly
¼ C milk
½ C mashed banana (1 large ripe banana)

Preheat oven to hot
Grease a 14cm x 21cm loaf tin, line base with baking paper
Sift flour and cinnamon into large bowl, rub in butter
Stir in sugar, egg, milk and banana.
Do not over mix, the batter should be lumpy
Spoon mixture into prepared tin
Bake in a hot oven about 30 minutes or until cooked when tested.
Stand bread 10 minutes before turning onto wire rack to cool.

The Taste Test

This recipe made a small loaf. It burnt very quickly and while the top was past 'golden' the inside was still uncooked. The top of the cake was burnt at the 25 minute mark.
At 30 minutes the loaf was fully cooked but by then the outside was obviously very over cooked.
Inside was very much a bread like texture and tasted much better with butter.
This bread was sweet tasting, but there was no obvious banana taste
When toasted the next morning, and all the burnt crusts removed there there wasn't much to toast but what was toasted, was very nice tasting. A nice spice flavour came through
The results from this recipe were so bad I'd like to have another go at making this loaf. Next time I would do it all in the food processor, double the recipe and add a third banana and of course bake it at a much lower temperature.

The Score 2/10