Banana-Walnut Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. Crisco, firmly packed
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs, slightly beaten
2 lb. bananas (very ripe), peeled and mashed
1/4 c. buttermilk
1/2 c. walnuts, chopped

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0.
Coat a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan with Crisco.
Sift together flour, baking soda and salt onto waxed paper.
Beat together sugar, shortening and vanilla at medium speed for 5 minutes until light and fluffy.
With mixer running, beat in eggs, then bananas.
By hand, stir in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, mixing after each addition only enough to moisten dry ingredients.
(Add dry ingredients in thirds, buttermilk in two additions.)
Stir in walnuts.
Spoon batter into pan, spreading well to corners.