Banana Bread

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cup mashed bananas
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 1/2 cup flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 cup chopped nuts, if desired

Directions:

Grease bottom only of loaf pan (9x5x3 inch) Mix sugar and butter together. Add in eggs and stir until smooth. Add bananas, buttermilk, vanilla. Mix until smooth. Stir in flour, baking soda, salt just until moistened. Add nuts if desired. Pour into pan and bake about 1 1/4 hours at 350 degrees F or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool completely before slicing.

By IMAQT1962 from ILLINOIS