Banana Nut Bread

I just took this Banana Nut Brad out of the oven and it smells Heavenly!

i had 2 overripe banana's that needed to go into a recipe as I did not want to waste them so I went hunting in my tons of cookbooks and found this recipe to try for the first time.  Its from the book "80 years of 4H cooking in Hawaii".

As you know I lived in Hawaii for many, many years and collected a ton of cook books from local community cooks. Now I just cut me a slice to see if I wanted to post this on here and it tasted good to me and hope it does to you if you try it.

This recipe was submitted by Helene Horimoto Zeug.

Ingredients:

1 cup butter

2 cup sugar or splenda

4 well beaten eggs

2 cups ripe banana's smashed good

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 1/2 cups sifted flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup chopped nuts

Directions:

preheat oven 350 degrees and oil and flour your 2 loaf pans. Set aside.

Cream butter & sugar. Then add the well beaten eggs, mixing well with the butter & sugar.  Then add well smashed bananas, mixing well with the other ingredients.  In a seperate bowl sift your flour and baking soda. Add the flour mixture to the wet mixute a little at a time.  Then add the chopped nuts and stir into the batter.  Pour the batter into the 2 loaf pans equally and place in the oven to bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour.  I tested mine and it was ready in 50 minutes .  Some ovens differ in temperatures just be sure and check at the 50 minute time and if not ready let it bake a little longer.  My husband Loves banana nut bread slathered with butter.  Anyway, Enjoy!!