Favorite Banana Nut Bread
From Diana Rattray,
Your Guide to Southern U.S. Cuisine.
This is a moist, buttery banana bread loaded with banana flavor.
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons soda
4 cups flour
6 large bananas, very ripe, mashed
1 cup finely chopped pecans
PREPARATION:
Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Sift dry ingredients together; add to creamed mixture. Stir in bananas and chopped pecans.
Pour banana nut bread batter into 2 well-greased loaf pans; bake at 325 for about 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
This banana nut bread recipe makes 2 loaves.
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