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Bread-Sweet: Indescribably Delicious Banana Bread

Source of Recipe

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List of Ingredients

TOPPING (for after baking)
6 tablespoons butter
10 tablespoons dark brown sugar
5 tablespoons milk
1 cup (or more) of pecans

BATTER:
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
4 very ripe bananas
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 tablespoons buttermilk
2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt


Recipe

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Cream butter and sugar. Mash bananas, beat 2 eggs and add to bananas with vanilla and buttermilk. Mix well and add to creamed butter and sugar. Sift together flour, soda and salt. Add to banana mixture; beat well. Pour into 2 greased and floured 9"x5"x3" loaf pans. Bake 45-50 minutes until bread pulls away from sides of pan. Cool. To prepare topping: Melt butter in saucepan. Add sugar and milk. Cook until very syrupy. Remove from heat and add chopped pecans. Pour over bread, spreading to all corners and place under broiler til brown and bubbly. Watch closely. Yield: 2 loaves *Use very ripe bananas.