Zucchini Bread Question
 

When you make zucchini bread, do you peel them, or do you use the skins, too?

These are "young" - soft-skinned zucchini - that I am asking about.

We always leave the skin on them.

Thank you.

I do too, Bear

i cut up the whole zucchini. but if they are older, i take out the seeds

It depends on who I feed it to...picky kid ds: I peel them as the kids don't like " green stuff" in their treat. I never did this for my kids...but the grands get special treatment.

I peel them for fear that they were touching the ground and I was not able to get all the dirt off the skins.

I had a very bad experience with someone using very mature Z. in Z bread and not peeling them. It was nice bread with horrid pieces of green indigestible and un-chewable leather in it. Yuk.

Marcia

Marcia (Battle Axe) a gal here told me to soak everything that comes in from the garden in Apple Cider Vinegar before I do anything else with it. That includes anything you bring home from the store too. You never know where its been or whose touched it. Think the vinegar kills any germs, dirt, etc. that might still be on it. I've been doing it for the past couple years and after rinsing I can't tell I even had it in vinegar. Doesn't seem to matter how long you soak either. Sometimes I leave it in for 5-10 minutes, other times it might be an hour. All depends on what else I'm doing at the time. Rather be safe than sorry. And she said Apple Cider Vinegar so I get the gallon size of the cheaper stuff. The vinegar with the "mother" in it I keep for drinking.

The zucchini bread turned out fine - I used washed thoroughly in water, very young, fresh, zucchini straight from our garden .

I think almost every vegetable we have grown has had the chance to touch the ground if the plants were blown over - or if the food part grows in the ground - or if the plant is a a vining sort. Or if there was a heavy rain with wind that splashed dirt up into the plants.