Aunt Marian'S Christmas Banana Bread With Pecans - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 very ripe bananas
3/4 c. sugar
pinch of salt
1 egg
1/4 c. butter
1 tsp. soda
1 Tbsp. water
2 c. pastry flour
pecans
crystallized sugar

Preparation

Mash bananas with fork.
Blend in sugar, salt and beaten egg. Melt butter and stir into banana mixture. Dissolve soda in water and add with sifted flour.
Mix.
Add 1/4 cup broken nutmeats and bake in greased loaf pan for 45 minutes in a 350\u00b0 oven.
Frost with thin vanilla icing.
Sprinkle with red and green crystallized sugar and decorate with pecans.
Makes 1 large loaf.