Banana Nut Cake/Bread

Another of my Mom's great recipe box recipes. This one is fading in my own treasury, so required recopying and I thoguht, "Why not into Zaar!" The nicest thing is I can pull up my recipes at work and print them out for co-workers.

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Serves: 12
• Yields: 1 loaf

Ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 2  eggs, beaten
• 1  cup banana, mashed
• 1  teaspoon vanilla or 1  teaspoon  lemon extract
• 2  cups flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• 1⁄2 cup  nuts, chopped

Directions

1. Cream butter.
2. Add sugar gradually.
3. Add eggs and beat thoroughly.
4. Add bananas and flavoring.
5. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with milk.
6. Add nuts.
7. Bake in greased loaf pan at 350 for 20-30 minutes.