BLACK WALNUT BANANA BREAD
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups very ripe bananas, mashed with a fork
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup finely chopped black walnuts
Mix vegetable oil, sugar, eggs, and bananas well. Add flour, salt, baking soda, and walnuts and mix thoroughly. Place in greased loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for an hour or in four small loaf pans with a baking time of 40 minutes.
TIP: Ripe bananas can be frozen, and it is also often possible to pick them up in grocery stores at greatly reduced rates.
—Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food written by Jim Casada and Tipper Pressley
Today’s Thankful November giveaway is a slightly damaged but new copy of Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food written by Jim Casada and Tipper Pressley. To be entered in the giveaway leave a comment on this post. Giveaway ends November 23, 2024. There will be two winners for this giveaway.
Winners
The winner of the damaged copies of Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food written by Jim Casada and Tipper Pressley are:
Cathy S who said: “Tipper and Family, I watch your videos every day. Such a pleasant respite from the turmoil that fills the airways. Thank you for what you do and please continue! I too live in Appalachia but find it interesting to see the differences in regions, languages, and food ways.”
Linda Kimura who said: “I would love a copy of the cookbook.”
Patricia H who said: “I’ve been wanting your cookbook for quite some time and would be very thankful for a copy.”
Jackie who said: “We had hamburgers with ground beef from the store occasionally after we got electricity. I was probably in about third grade then. I think I may have been near high school age when we got the first freezer and began to butcher a beef each year. Before that it was pork, chicken, fish and the wild game in season.”
The winner of our Songs of Christmas cd with the broken case is Paul who said: “I’ll be longing to see you. Oh wow! You are the called. I love it.”
The winner of the cd The Wilson Brothers – At John C. Campbell Folk School & on Radio is Norman Chester who said: “my uncle Carl was a veteran, he died a few years ago, he served in Italy, during world war II, he was a medic, he was gone from home 37 months, the war had been over for a month, he had not come home, his immediate family thought he was dead, but by the grace of God one day they heard somebody singing and dancing on the porch, it was Uncle Carl, he survived, praise God, you talk about a happy Chester family, for some reason he didn’t get to fly home on an airplane, he had to ride a slow boat all the way across the ocean, but praise God he lived.”
I haven’t heard from the winner below so I’m sharing the information again.
The winner of the used book A Time For Every Purpose written by Barbara Taylor Woodall is Meg who said “We recently discovered the goodness that is home grown pork. What a difference!
This is the first year we have done it, but we plan to raise a few piglets every year now.
I’d love a copy of that book!
Prayers for all of you and all in our area as the cold comes on,
Meg”
Winners please send your mailing address to me at blindpigandtheacorn@gmail.com and I’ll get your book or cd to you.
Last night’s video: Matt Makes Me Breakfast By The Woodpile.
Tipper
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I love black walnuts in anything and I will surely make this bread!
This recipe sounds delicious! I must try it, although I don’t know if I can get black walnuts where I live.
Oh my family loves banana bread! I have been using the same recipe for over 45 years (my jr. high recipe from home ec class). I will try your recipe the next time I make it. And oh how I wish I could win a copy of your book. 🙂
I’ll try this recipe as soon as the bananas on my kitchen counter are ready!
I love banana bread, but do not like black walnuts. This recipe looks like a winner but would use English walnuts or pecans.
Congratulations to all the winners! 🙂
Tipper, if I get picked as one of the winners of this drawing I want you to send my cookbook to Ashley B. Reading her comment in the one of the previous posts to win one of your cookbooks really touched my heart so I’m commenting today for another chance to win for her!
Thank you Tipper for this recipe of banana bread. My family loves it. I’m always looking for new recipes to try.
You and your family are so giving to video your lives for us to enjoy. The videos get me through many hours of dealing with health issues. I enjoy your writings on the Blind Pig & The Acorn as well. God bless all of you.
The banana bread with black walnuts sounds good!
I watched an older video of you making chicken and dumplings last night and now I am craving them.
It’s still so warm in Monroe Georgia that some trees and flowers are blooming like Springtime.
The banana bread recipe sounds good but I would put pecans instead of black walnuts. I don’t come to the blog often but I watch your YouTube channel. Enjoy it very much. Wanted to make it to a cookbook signing but never did. Maybe one day.
I agree with Kelly – black walnuts are an acquired taste. My dad loved them in divinity. I did not acquire his taste for either of these items. They don’t grow in my part of Texas but about 20 years ago I picked up some near a wooded Kentucky cemetery where two of my great-grandparents are buried. My cousin told me that I didn’t know the effort required to get the meat out of these hulls. She was so right! I lost any interest in black walnuts that year.
The banana bread recipe using black walnuts sounds so good! We love to eat black walnuts and have several
places we can go and gather them from. We have a couple of trees here close to our property, but the trees are young and don’t produce that many nuts, plus the squirrels usually beat us to them.
Love to try out new recipes on my clan. This one sounds good.
Congratulations, winners!
I’m not familiar with black walnuts. I just researched to see if they grow in Texas, and it turns out they do- in the eastern part. The trees are so large and beautiful!
I don’t have access to black walnuts where I live. I go to Myrtle Beach each February, so I will plan on getting some so I can try this recipe. it sounds fantastic! ❣️
I have been reading your blog for quite a few years and when I am looking for a certain recipe I come to your site first. I would really enjoy having your cookbook.
Still hoping to be selected by the random generator
Thank you for the banana bread recipe! It sounds delicious! I feel like I can smell it already !
I enjoyed your video last night , and Katie’s , as always !
Congratulations to all the winners !
So much to be thankful for !
We already have the cookbook when we met you at Mast General Store in Valle Crucis NC.
The next one we get will be gifted to a family member who would thoroughly enjoy it.
Congratulations to all of the winners!
I love banana bread. I have always made it using pecans but will have to try it with black walnuts. Have a great day everyone!
My Aunt made my Grandpa a black walnut cake for Christmas every year. She had a black walnut tree in her yard and my Uncle would spend hours getting the walnuts out of the shell.
This is not banana bread, but Tipper do you or anyone else have a recipe for the old time bread pudding? My maternal grandmother would make it and it would be a little juicy, unlike the dry bread pudding I have tried in restaurants. I sure loved grandmother’s bread pudding.
I like black walnuts but boy are they hard to shell! Also like banana but just never cared for the bread, unless it’s loaded with nuts.
My family always looked forward at Christmas to my aunt’s black walnut cake. Unfortunately I don’t have her recipe. I do have her pound cake recipe that people also greatly enjoy.
I freeze my ripe bananas, that work well in making smoothies and baking.
Tipper I read your blog first thing every morning. It makes my day! Prayers for a Happy Thanksgiving for All of Your Family. Also, I would Love to win the cookbook to share with my Friend.
Sounds delicious! I wanted to meet you and get a signed copy of your cookbook in Knoxville but didn’t get to. I’d love to be considered for one – or one of any of the Appalachian books or articles.
I am so thankful years ago I found your blog and YouTube channels. They bring me so many wonderful moments and memories of life. Such a joy and privilege sharing the lives of your family. I would be twice blessed to receive your and Jim’s cookbook if I could win one.
Black walnuts are my favorite. I make banana bread often, but I have never used black walnuts in it. There was not one walnut on the many trees along my road this year where they are usually ankle-deep in places. I wonder if there is a weather folklore associated with this odd occurrence. The weather folks are saying the Polar Vortex is similar to the one we had in the winter of ’78-’79…
Love walnuts!
This recipe contains two of my favorite things to eat, bananas and black walnuts. With a combination like that along with the other ingredients who could not like it! Thanks for sharing.
I could smell the bacon sizzling as it cooked in the old iron skillet in the cool of the morning. Oh those wonderful smells of cooking outside on a Coleman stove in the fall of the year! I don’t really care for black walnuts but I do like walnuts and I guess prefer using pecans when I make banana bread. Randy, at times I use self-rising flour and I do not need to add in baking powder or baking soda.
I sure hope Matt has a wonderful time hunting – I can see he is really getting excited about going. I remember the excitement building as it came hunting season as my Daddy loved, loved to go quail and pheasant hunting with his bird dogs. Although I never carried a gun, I sure did traipse behind Daddy when he would go squirrel hunting.
I’m so glad you have the equipment to better move those cut up pieces of logs. Anyone can see how that saved you a lot of back-breaking work and cut the time to do it way down. Yay for you!! God bless ya all!!
Dee, back in the past when there were still bobwhite quail ( just simply birds to most southern hunters) and rabbits to hunt and I was able to hunt, I would be so excited by this time of year, it was worse than when I was a child at Christmas. The reason was because bird and rabbit hunting season opened on Thanksgiving Day. It wasn’t the killing so much as enjoying watching a well trained pair of bird dogs working, or listening to a little pack of beagles running their hearts out chasing a rabbit. I too enjoyed going squirrel hunting with my Daddy.
Oh how we love banana bread! I make several batches to share with friends and to freeze for future use. I like to also use banana bread to make French toast. Going to give your recipe a try today as I have all the ingredients on hand and it will to warm the house.
I make banana bread and although your recipe sounds delicious I can’t eat walnuts. I keep trying but too many and I get irritation in my mouth. My mother used walnuts a lot in recipes because we had two large black walnut trees in front of the house in the center of a circular driveway. The house was a ways off the highway so in later life the mailbox was moved in front of the house. The mailman often teased them that he should get a share of the walnut crop since his vehicle ran over them and crushed the hulls. Mother and Daddy liked to sit on the porch and watch the squirrels but after the mailman’s car crushed the hulls they would daily put the hulled walnuts in bushel baskets to dry in the woodshed, trying to get their share before the squirrels got them. Daddy would sit by the fireplace and crack and shell the walnuts for Christmas baking. One year when he went to the woodshed the baskets were empty. The squirrels had found them and carried them all off! They told the mailman that neither of them would have walnuts that year. I am always reminded of this when I think of walnuts.
Hello Tipper, Matt, and Girls!
Tipper, I so enjoy reading your email post everyday! It’s like having a daily friend come to visit me. I would be thrilled to receive one of your cookbooks. I love watching Celebrating Appalachia and I feel like a member of the family. Your part of the country is absolutely beautiful and I appreciate you sharing your home, as well as your family and daily life with us. My husband and I lived in north Georgia when we first married. Then, we moved to Dallas, Texas, for work reasons. I would love to get back to your part of the country. My paternal side of the family hail from the Appalachia area in Kentucky and Tennessee. Maybe one day, we could be neighbors??! Thank you for the upbeat and inspiring daily email and features on your channel!
Would love to win your cook book!
I love to make Banana Bread but I have to leave out nuts because of my husband can’t have them.
Love all your videos!
Joanna
Our family loves banana bread, and it makes a delicious addition to breakfast! I’d love a copy in better condition. My kids set mine down in water on the kitchen counter and now the front pages stick together
I love banana bread and black walnuts, so this looks like a great recipe to me!
In my utility room I had stored about a half bushel of black walnuts and forgotten them. The other day I stumbled across them and started to dump them out but decided to crack one open and see what was inside. It was as fresh as one from this year would be. I put them there before March 25th of 2018 when my wife died, but I can’t remember how long before. That’s been at least 6½ years.
The internet thinks black walnuts will last 1 to 2 years in the shell. I have reason to doubt that!
I’m sure this is delicious!
The warmth of the kitchen on a cold day waiting for the sweets baking in the oven, and the enticing smell of comfort food, are all memories from my childhood with my Grammie. I would love your cookbook.
This sounds delicious. Thanks for sharing.
I’m excited to possibly get your cookbook! We learn so much from your garden videos! Ty
Ooh this recipe looks so good!!! Would love to try out the recipes in your book, too!
Wishing the best for you and your family. <3
Maybe the third time is the charm! Would love that cookbook!
My brother-in-law retired from walnut farming. I wish people appreciated walnuts more than they do! And black walnuts are my favorite, Tipper! Thanks for the recipes, as always.
Black walnuts bring back so many wonderful memories. As a kid mom and dad would take us up on the ridges around the house and pick up walnuts and hickory nuts for winter. After they dried and snow covered the ground, we had a rock and hammer in front of the fireplace and we would sit there and Crack them while that black coffee brewed away. Be thankful every day because those days flee so fast and you can never get them back.
I’ll say it again, I read cookbooks like novels!
Got black walnuts and ready to use this recipe
Hi Tipper. the recipe looks so simple! I gave my sisters one of your cookbooks and they love it! Hope to win but I’m just thankful for your blog and channels.
Looking forward to trying this recipe. Would love to win your cookbook Tipper. I start my day off with your You Tube videos and the Blind Pig emails.
Thank you Tipper! Just emailed you my mailing address! So excited to have one a book!
Thanks for the bread recipe too , sounds wonderful!
❤️ Meg
Would love a copy of your cookbook!!
I do enjoy fresh baked banana bread. Don’t think I’ve had it with black walnuts though. Sounds yummy.
Good morning Tipper and all. Congratulations to all the winner this morning! This banana bread recipe sounds delicious—I will have to try it soon. Have a super day!
Congratulations to all of the winners. I bought Barbara’s book “A Time For Every Purpose” last week and have been reading it. I have read her first book several times.
My paternal grandmother and mother in law both made good banana bread. I am going to give today’s recipe a shot. Before my wife passed, I would often cook breakfast and she would cook our supper, now I have had to do both. I do have a question, can self rising flour be used and skip adding baking soda?
Randy-I haven’t tried that but seems like it would work just fine 🙂
Thanks for the recipe. My husband loves banana bread. I would love to have a copy of your cookbook.
Oh how I do love banana bread.
banana bread is a favorite here especially this time of year. We like to add chocolate chips to ours.
I’m going to try this recipe on my next loaf of Banana Nut Bread! I love pecans but I will use Walnuts this time! Sounds so delicious, I’m headed to the store for Walnuts today! lol
I would love a copy of your cookbook, thank you for the opportunity!
Definitely going to try this recipe, my husband loves black walnuts, me, not so much. I like regular walnuts but the black are way too strong for me. This would be great for breakfast!
I like bananas any way they can be eaten – the riper the sweeter. Adding the black walnuts only improves the goodness. As a kid I went to school with stained hands every fall from shelling walnuts. One substitute teacher made me wash my hands several times before I got her to understand the stain had to wear off.
Jackie, I remember going to school and my hands being stained from picking up sweet potatoes when we were taking them up. A lot of old time remedies have been mentioned on the blog, one that was used around here for a ringworm was to rub a green walnut on it. It seemed like the stain would never go away. My walnut trees didn’t have many walnuts this, maybe it was because of it being so hot and dry.
Congratulations to the winners!
I have some black walnuts and over ripe bananas in the freezer, so I will be trying this recipe soon!
Thank you for sharing!
Black walnuts are my husband’s favorite, but it must be an acquired taste because I don’t care for them. But your recipes always turn out great.
it is 5am and per my routine when I wake up before ‘the chickens’ I am here reading your blog. One of these days I am going to go back to the very beginning and start reading — it seems like just yesterday I found you on YouTube and subsequently learned of your blog, but as I ponder the holidays of my past I realize this will be the third one that has included watching your family prepare for and celebrate. It is definitely no exaggeration that the older you get the faster time flies. Praying for you and your family
So thankful I found BP and A several years ago. I was searching for Banana Pudding recipe and all these years later I still use that recipe and many others you’ve shared. Hope to win your cookbook.