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This post is archived from my Posterous blog, which shut down in 2012. Some posts have been edited slightly to fix typographical errors, correctly represent the gender of some individuals, and remove unnecessarily-gendered language. You can view the full archive here.

The latest issue of Cook’s Illustrated included this recipe for banana bread that squeezes six bananas in one loaf. To manage moisture they extract liquid from five of them (by cooking and straining), then reduce that liquid and put it back in the batter. (The final banana is sliced for a decorative top).

This bread was great. Really intense flavor, moise-but-not-too, nice crisp edges.

A loaf of banana bread still in the pan. It has a split top, a golden brown color, and two stripes of shingled sliced banana as a decorative top.

Six bananas! One loaf! (My banana stripes are a little off-kliter.)