Agnes
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons water
1/2 cup nuts
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 well ripened bananas
Mix together and pour into a greased and floured loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 1 hour.
A friend had some better instructions, so I am moving them up from Comments. Eventually, I will re-write the recipe here, but until then…
Patch
August 25, 2019 at 3:05 pm | Edit | Reply
I think Grandma was leaving out all the instructions she knew to do, like I did when I was copying down 23 different banana bread recipes or whatever it ended up being. 😀
(And when I was developing a new muffin recipe, or an applesauce bread recipe, etc, I just wrote down ingredients and skipped all the instructions. My grandchildren will despair! Hahahah.)
Read the ingredients by rows instead of columns, and then it’s more clear: butter and sugar go together, because they’re creamed together. Then you add the vanilla and the eggs. It works best to combine the dry ingredients (the next 4 things) in a separate bowl so that they’re well distributed when the dry and the wet come together. Not sure why the water and bananas are last, I normally add bananas after eggs. Not sure if it will change texture or consistency, or not.
