Mamas Southern Sweet Bread Recipes

HOW TO MAKE OLD FASHIONED SWEET BREAD

Steps:

• Whisk together the flour, baking powder and baking soda in a large bowl.
• Add buttermilk, butter, vanilla extract, sugar and eggs. Stir well with spoon.
• Pour into a 9 x 5 bread pan sprayed with cooking spray. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven 45 to 50 minutes or until center tests done.
• Cool 10 minutes and remove from pan.

MOM'S SWEET BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Coat you pan with cake release or Pam (loaf, cake or muffin pan- times vary for each pan).
• 2. Beat butter with mixer until it is fluffy. Add both sugars and mix well. Add eggs and vanilla mix well. Smash your very ripe bananas and fold in.
• 3. combine all dry ingredients and mix well. add the butter mixture and mix well. Slowly mix in the Carnation. Lastly add nuts.
• 4. Pour batter into pan of preference. Loaf: 1 hr 15 minutes. Muffin: about 12 minutes. Cake pan: I do not remember the time. Depending on the oven you are using and the altitude, you may just have to watch it and see what the times will be.
• 5. Cool if you like. I like it hot with butter!

MAMA'S ARKANSAS SWEET BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.Grease or spray baking pan with non stick cooking spray. The dimensions of the loaf pans that I used were 12 inch X 4 1/2 inch X 3.1 1/4 inch. It is a Wilton Pan and I bought it at AMAZON. iT IS LONGER THAN THE TRADITIONAL SIZE LOAF PAN.
• 2. Cream Butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
• 3. Add egg yolks one at a time beating well after each addition.
• 4. Mix flour salt and baking powder together in a sifter or mesh strainer, then push mixture thru with the back of a spoon, into a bowl.
• 5. Now add a bit of flour to the creamed mixture.
• 6. Alternate with the milk in about 3 intervals.
• 7. Now add extracts and yellow food coloring if desired., and beat till blended and well incorporated.
• 8. Beat egg whites till stiff peaks form. If it is a rainey day you will not get stiff peaks. So just beat until egg whites are frothy and foamy. Carefully fold egg whites into cake batter by using a spatula and going from the bottom of the bowl to the top, all the while you are turning the bowl.
• 9. Pour batter into prepared pans, either a 9 X 13 X 2 pan and bake for about 50 minutes or pour into 2 loaf pans.
• 10. Bake at 350 degree F. oven and bake for 42 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean.
• 11. May add a thin glaze if desired or dust lightly with powdered sugar, or serve with sweetened fruit.
• 12. Mama called it sweetbread because it could satisfy a sweet tooth I suppose. Using the 9 X 13 pan allowed all of us to savor in the taste of this sweet sensation. We always loved this sweet sensation because it was the perfect ending sweet sensation to an otherwise plain supper.