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Mamaw's Banana Bread Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 c. Crisco
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 c. ripe bananas, mashed
4 tbsp. buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla
2 c. flour
1 tsp. soda
Dash of salt
1 c. pecans, chopped
Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream shortening and sugar together. Add eggs, mix well, then add mashed bananas. Mix until creamy. Add buttermilk and vanilla. Add flour, soda and salt and mix well. Add pecans and mix well.

Pour into greased and floured loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Mamaw, John Spencer's grandmother, spent her winters in Kissimmee with her daughter and son-in-law, Iris & Dale Spencer. Suzanne & Dru were old enough to enjoy and remember Mamaw. She also made beautiful quilts for the grandchildren.

This recipe, found in Granny Spencer's cookbook from the 1930s, was written in Mamaw's handwriting and a point of inspiration for this cookbook.

 

 

 

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