Banana Bran Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

5 bananas, very ripe
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup Kellogg's all-bran cereal, original
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/3 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 cup low-fat buttermilk or 1/4 cup sour milk
1 cup pecans

Preparation

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease or spray 2 8\" x 4\" loaf pans.
In a large bowl, mash bananas.
Add eggs, vanilla, and applesauce and blend.
Mash the bran cereal (not flakes) and mix with flour.
Add remaining dry ingredients (except baking soda) and stir well.
Dissolve baking soda in milk. Put this in a container bigger than one cup. It will foam up a lot. [make sour milk by adding 1/2 teaspoon of vinegar].
Add milk mixture to rest of ingredients and mix well.
Fold in nuts and pour into greased pans.
Bake for about 1 hour and 5 minutes depending on your oven. Start checking for doneness at 55 minutes. (especially with Pyrex pans)
For a moist bread, a toothpick should come out almost clean. Totally clean will mean a dryer loaf.
After removing from oven, let cool for 15 minutes and remove from pans. Bread will freeze nicely.