12 Days of Craftmas # 6 & #7- Cooking

Cooking your presents is just a good idea. Its cheap and thoughtful, so for my large extended family I decided to do Banana Bread for my dad's family and Hot Pepper Jelly for my mom's family.


Basic Recipe- we always have brown bananas in our freezer. Just defrost them...

• 3 or 4 ripe bananas, smashed
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 1 cup sugar (can easily reduce to 3/4 cup)
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour
• 350 degrees for an hour. 

I got the Christmas towels at the dollar store Cost: $1.00  Time: 1.5 hours for 4 loaves

 
Hot Pepper Jelly is a southern thing, this was a little ambitious but also fun. You have to have a hot water bath caner and jars. It is cool to see your pepper flecks in the amber liquid.

I used red Serrano and Green Jalapeno Peppers from my garden. 

Cost: jars 30 cents each 

Time: 2 hours for 7 jars   

http://www.pickyourown.org/pepper_jelly.htm