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Subject: Banana Bread- a review
Bouquet: Warm, subtle, earthy tones provide a subtext to the dominant banana scent, hints of sweetness, not overpowering, but firm.
Texture: Dense without being hard, soft without being mushy, delightful melting quality accentuated by the numerous chocolate and cranberry bits. Nuts provide a nice textural counterpoint, balancing the bread's mouthfeel without distracting from it.
Taste: Precocious but not overbearing, the traditional banana-bread taste playfully interwoven with the tart cranberries, earthy nuts, and exotic chocolate tastes. Undertones of bread provide a stable platform for displaying the less-common additions. First strikes the tongue with a tasty but simple banana bread experience, followed quickly by the veritable explosion of the chocolate melting onto the taste-buds, and, as it is chewed, the sweetness is immediately cut by the cranberries. The salivary perk given by the cranberries mellows smoothly into a creamy, strongly banana-tasting finish, which lingers, still suggesting chocolate to the mid-tongue region.
First Prize.
How did she take it?
ReplyDeleteShe said "Oh wow, that's more than I ever expected! You made my day!" Soooooo...Brownie points! Or should I say "Banana bread points!"?
DeleteYou described bread as "precocious." I'm not sure I have anything meaningful to add to that, I just wanted to point that out in case anyone missed it.
ReplyDeleteI said it and I meant it! That bread was "unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development" (Dictionary.com)
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