Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Sugar-Free Brown Sugar Banana Bread

Hello All!

Well, I made Heather's brown sugar banana bread recipe tonight -- without the sugar -- and it seems to have worked out just fine.

I had a tiny taste of the banana bread and it tastes incredibly sweet. I used very sweet organic bananas. If I had made the recipe with sugar, it would have been too sweet for me.

The only problem in making the two loaves of banana bread was my inept baking skills. I made a HUGE mess -- I used zillions of dishes and got flour all over the floor and on myself. I muddled some of the egg yolks with the egg whites (how the heck do you separate them?!), and I got mushed banana on the countertop and walls! It took me an incredible amount of time (about an hour) to prepare this recipe and then almost as long afterwards to wash all the dishes, the floor and walls!

I think I need some baking lessons. I've only baked about four times in my life and the last time was about 10 years ago. Perhaps it's just that I don't have any aptitude for baking (or cooking). I seem to have come from a long line of unmaternal women. In fact, the only person who bakes (and likes to cook) in my immediate family is my father, but, alas, I don't appear to have inherited his genes.

Well, anyway, by some miracle this recipe worked. Hopefully I'll get better at making it as I get more practice. My one concern is the large number of eggs in the recipe. I'm allergic to eggs and my throat tickled a little after eating a small piece of the banana bread. I had hoped I was just allergic to the egg yolk, but I guess the egg white is problematic too.

By the way, I found both my cake mixer and my flour sifter so the only investment I had to make were the ingredients. I also found two five-by-nine-inch loaf pans in my cupboard. It's amazing what I've got stashed away there!

I must sign off now. I have to wash the flour out of my hair.

Belinda

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