Being only about 16 years of age at the time, my mother let me go ahead and mix up a BIG batch of Banana Bread… which I had done on several occasions.
So much so that this recipe became one of my “specialties”… I loved to bake!
Having several mouths to feed and raising a rather large family on one income, my parents resorted to cost cutting measures such as purchasing things like every day baking products in bulk.
My father had re-modelled a cabinet to fit a small hallway just off the cooking kitchen.
This cabinet had two large bins in it, one which held a large bag of flour, the other held a large bag of icing sugar and brown sugar.