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Best of Kansas Banana-Walnut Bread

Source of Recipe

Granny


List of Ingredients

2 cups sifted all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs, slightly beaten
2 large bananas (about 3/4 lb.) very ripe,, peeled and mashed
1/4 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans



Recipe

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Coat 9 X 5 X 3 inch loaf pan with nonstick vegetable oil cooking spray

2. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt onto waxed paper.

3. Beat together sugar, butter and vanilla at moderate mixer speed for about 5 minutes until light and fluffy. With mixer running, beat in eggs, then bananas. By hand, stir in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, mixing after each addition only enough to moisten dry ingredient. (Add dry ingredient in thirds, buttermilk in two additions.)

4. Stir in walnuts or pecans. Spoon batter into prepared pan, spreading well to corners.

5. Bake in preheated 350° oven for 60 to 65 minutes or until loaf is richly browned, begins to pull away from sides of pan and is springy to the touch.

6. Cool bread in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. Loosen loaf around edge with small thin metal spatula. Invert; turn right side up. Cool completely.