My family lives for banana bread, and they all say this recipe is heaven!
Ingredients
- very ripe bananas: 5 piece
- eggs: 4 piece
- shortening: 1 cup
- ½ cups white sugar: 2 piece
- vanilla extract: 1 Tbsp
- ½ cups all-purpose flour: 3 piece
- baking soda: 2 tsp
- salt: 1 tsp
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease 2 - 9x5 inch loaf pans. In a medium bowl, mash bananas and stir in the eggs until well blended. Set aside.
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In large bowl, beat shortening and gradually add sugar. Stir in vanilla and banana mixture. Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt; blend into batter. Add walnuts if desired. Divide between the prepared pans.
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Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean.