Banana Oat Bread

Description

• Makes 18 servings.
• From files of Alice 2/03/93

Ingredients

• 2¼ cup all-purpose flour
• ⅔ cup honey-crunch wheat germ
• ½ cup oats, uncooked
• ¼ cup brown sugar, packed
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• 10 tbsp light corn oil spread, 1½ sticks
• 1½ cup mashed bananas, about 3 medium
• 6 oz can frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed
• ½ cup egg substitute, thawed
• ⅓ cup walnuts, chopped
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

About 2 hours before serving, or early in the day:

1. Preheat oven to 350 °F. Grease 9"x5" loaf pan.
2. In large bowl, mix first 7 ingredients. With pastry blender, cut in corn-oil spread until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
3. Stir in bananas, undiluted apple-juice concentrate, egg substitute, walnuts, and vanilla just until flour is moistened.
4. Spoon batter into pan. Bake 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center of bread comes out clean.
5. Cool bread in pan on wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan and cool slightly.
6. Serve warm, or cool completely to serve later.

Nutritional Information

Each serving: about 180 calories, 5 g. Fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 135 mg sodium. Diabetic exchanges: 1 starch, 1 fruit, 1 fat