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Sweet: Ma's Banana Bread

Source of Recipe

Caroline Davis


List of Ingredients

1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
2 eggs - beaten
3 over ripe bananas
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1/3 cup warm water
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped


Recipe

Grease 1 large loaf pan. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Melt butter and let cool. Add sugar. Mash bananas with eggs. Mix all wet ingredients together.
Sift dry ingredients together and then add to wet mixture adding the water and the walnuts. Bake in a greased loaf pan at 375 degrees for 1 hour to 1 hour + 15 minutes. (Check after 1 hour but inserting a toothpick in center-if it comes out clean, it's done.

YIELD: 1 Loaf