Banana Pumpkin..Thing

Cover of Joy of Cooking

Mushy bananas that needed to be used: check.

Spices: check.

Bread machine: check.

WTF did I make?

Ingredients for Banana Pumpkin Thing, devised out of necessity from a hybrid of two Joy of Cooking recipes and contents of pantry:

1/3 cup mashed bananas

2/3 cup pureed pumpkin

1 egg

1/2 cup vegetable oil

7 tbsp (or about 1/2 rounded cup) sugar

1 cup white flour

1/2 cup wheat flour

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

dash of cinnamon, vanilla extract, and about 3 pods’ worth of cardamom seeds

Put all ingredients in bread machine and bake on the Quick or Cake cycle.

It came out…kind of puddingy. I think the recipe would have been better with more flour, and even better with more flour and in muffin, not bread, form. If I hadn’t been in a rush, I probably would have done muffins, but as it was, it was easier just to throw everything in the machine.

So, okay, texture not perfect, but the flavor–I’ve decided that I really like breads with cardamom. The flavorings and spices, definitely a winner. Texture needs some tweaking.