Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz
After growing up in San Diego County, Avigail ventured to the great Northwest to attend Reed College where she graduated with a degree in Religion. She spent a summer in Amherst, MA, to intern at the National Yiddish Book Center and then returned to Reed to work as an admission counselor for two and a half years. Though Portland was an amazing place to wheel around on a 3-speed cruiser to get to yoga class and buy groceries, Avigail was excited to come on board at Hazon in January, 2008, as a coordinator of outdoor Jewish adventures.
Yid.Dish: Banana Bundt Cake
I initially posted this recipe as a comment on the giant falafel bundt, because the same week that they posted, I had made a real bundt cake of my very own. I shared this cake with a couple of people who I work with, including Hazon’s Executive Director, Nigel Savage, who insisted that this lowly banana cake get its very own post and photo.
Nigel actually tried the cake when we were on our way from Manhattan to Long Island to a Jewish wedding. In retrospect, I suppose I see how silly I was to bring provisions for an hour-long car ride on the way to a Jewish simcha, but hey, there can never be too much food! And six hungry Jews in a car in NY traffic - what did I know? I’ve never been to Long Island - things could have gotten ugly.
I didn’t think there was a Jewish connection to my banana cake, but when doing a bit of research on the Wikipedia I found this:
“The Bundt pan (a registered trademark) was created in 1950 by H. David Dalquist, founder of Nordic Ware, at the request of members of the Hadassah Society’s chapter in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They were interested in a pan that could be used to make bundkuchen (sometimes called kugelhopf or Gugelhupf), a popular German and Austrian coffee cake. The old-world pans, made of delicate ceramic or heavy cast iron, were difficult to use. He modified some existing Scandinavian pan designs by introducing folds in the outer edge, and fashioned the pan out of aluminum.”
So that you never have to risk being hungry on the way to your next simcha, here’s the recipe for banana cake.
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