Banana Bread Recipe

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Ready in: 1-2 hrs
recipe difficulty 3/5

Difficulty: 3 (1=easiest :: hardest=5)

Serves/Makes: 1 loaf

Ingredients:
1 3/4 cup Unbleached flour
2 3/4 teaspoons Baking powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/3 cup Shortening
2/3 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
4 Bananas, Ripe -- Mashed
1/2 cup Chopped pecans or walnuts -- Optional

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Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat shortening in mixer until creamy. Add sugar and eggs, continue beating at medium speed one minute. Add bananas to egg mixture. Mix until blended. Add flour mixture, beating at low speed only until blended. Turn into buttered loaf pan and bake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean.

Variations: Substitute cream cheese for shortening.

For spicy version, add 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp mace and 1/4 tsp nutmeg to flour mixture.

This recipe from CDKitchen for Banana Bread serves/makes 1 loaf