1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mashed bananas
1 tsp vanilla
2 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Directions
Cream butter and sugar. Gradually add eggs, then bananas and vanilla.
Fold in dry ingredients that have been sifted together. Add nuts.
Bake in buttered loaf pan, at 350 degrees, for 1 1/4 hours or until
loaf tests done. Cool in pan for 10 minutes and then turn out to cool
completely.
Servings: 6 servings
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Categories: Banana; Bread; Breads; Fruit
The History of Recipes
Written cooking instructions as an idea can be observed way back into ancient history, certainly as far into history as ancient Egypt, and possibly even further than that. Interesting though that is, in the main part, these ancient cook books were just primitive hieroglyphic instructions for meal preparation.
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We hope you enjoy this Bermuda Banana Bread recipe.
