BANANA BREAD 1/2 C butter or vegetable oil 2 C sugar 3 eggs 2 tsp vanilla 2.5 C mashed banana (appx 5) 1/2 C buttermilk or yogurt 1 C white flour 2 C whole wheat pastry flour 2 tsp baking soda 2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp nutmeg 1/2 tsp cloves 1/2 tsp allspice Cream butter (if using). Add sugar, beat well. Add eggs and vanilla, beat. Stir together white flour, spices, and baking soda. Mix into butter mixture. Mix in banana. Add WW flour, alternating with buttermilk/yogurt. Pour into 3 greased and floured loaf pans, and bake at 350 for 50 minutes to 1 hour or until toothpick comes out clean. Here's the recipe multiplied by 1.5. Put into 4 pans intead of 3: 0.75 C butter (1.5 sticks) (or vegetable oil) 3 C sugar 5 eggs 3 tsp vanilla 3.5ish C mashed banana (appx 7) 3/4 C buttermilk or yogurt 1 C white flour 3.5 C whole wheat pastry flour 3 tsp baking soda 3 tsp cinnamon 1.5 tsp nutmeg 0.75 tsp cloves 0.75 tsp allspice --------------------- Cori's Grammy's Banana Bread (I haven't tried this) Mix in order given, and bake in moderate oven (350) about 1 hour: Makes one loaf. 3 mashed bananas 3/4 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 egg 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, if desired (I usually put in more like 1/2 cup and sprinkle whole ones on top) One banana is about 1/2 cup. I have had great luck substituting pumpkin for some of it, and using the spices I'd use for pumpkin pie.