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Preparation. Make the cake: 1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Brush a 9-inch square baking pan with butter and line with parchment paper, leaving an overhang on two sides.

Genevieve Gergis of the Los Angeles restaurant Bestia put this recipe for her homemade butter-topped banana bread in the restaurant’s 2018 cookbook (one that, okay yes, I co-wrote, but the fact ...

That's what you'll get if you explore the first published American recipes for the cake. Anne Byrn writes in her book American Cake that the first mention of the cake, which came to the U.S. from ...