Banana Nut Bread

Jeff's FAVORITE dessert! He could eat this all day if given the option. Nice and warm, with a little bit of butter melted on top. It's really quite comforting and always great with a nice cold cup of milk =]

We've been searching around for a good recipe for quite awhile and Jeff's mom told us that she had gotten an email containing the original recipe of Jeff's dad's grandma. We had her print out a copy and send us a picture of it so we could try to recreate it.

INGREDIENTS
5 ripe bananas
Flour
2 teaspoons Baking Soda
2 cups Sugar
1 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Shortening
4 eggs, beaten
1 cup Chopped Walnuts

 First, in a small bowl we beat the 4 eggs and in another small bowl smashed the ripened bananas. Preheat the oven at 350 degrees F.

Then, we creamed the shortening and sugar. Both of us took turns doing this, because we had just bought a new hand mixer and we wanted to try it out. Slowly we added the smashed bananas and beaten eggs.

 Sift together dry ingredients and add a little at a time into the wet ingredients. At the end add the cup of walnuts and mix thoroughly.

Now its time to butter and flour the loaf pans. This is where things gets messy!! Jeff had the honor of buttering the pans by hand and flouring them.

Gently pour the mixture in the loaf pans and bake for an hour and 5 min.

LOOK HOW PRETTY THEY TURNED OUT AND THEY TASTE AMAZING!! We have one in the freezer because there is no way we can eat it both loafs without it going bad. I'm thinking we'll use it as my birthday cake next weekend ;)