We returned from Kauai VERY early this morning. When I staggered into the kitchen I found three VERY ripe banana and a very (small case on purpose) soft apple in our produce rack. Instantly, I thought apple-banana bread.

This recipe is an amalgam of several I found online. One note: my brown sugar was very clumpy so I ran it through a sieve before adding it to the other dry ingredients. I was able to break up the clumps with my fingers.

Apple-Banana Bread

INGREDIENTS
• 260 g (1¾ c) AP flour
• ¾ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• 75 g (⅓ c) granulated sugar
• 110 g (⅔ c) light brown sugar
• ¼ tsp cinnamon
• ¼ tsp nutmeg
• 2 eggs
• ⅔ c butter (very soft)
• 3 Tbl milk
• 3 small/medium bananas (mashed)
• 1 large apple (peeled, cored, chopped)

METHOD

1. Mix together flour, baking soda, salt, sugar and spices.
2. Blend in eggs, butter, and milk.
3. Stir in banana and apple.
4. Pour batter into greased loaf pan.
5. Bake at 350F for about 1 hour or until toothpick test comes out clean. (Internal temperature was 193F.)
6. Rest in the loaf pan for 10 minutes, then on a cooling rack until room temperature (if you can wait that long.)