Amy Grant’s Grandma Grant’s Banana Nut Bread (I sub chocolates chips for nuts) Good Housekeeping – February 2009

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter, softened

2 large eggs

3 bananas, sliced (2 cups)

2 cups flour

1/2 cup pecans, chopped (CHOCOLATE CHIPS)

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

Instructions:

 Grease an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch metal loaf pan.  Cream the sugar with the butter.  Mix in the eggs, bananas, flour, pecans, baking soda, and the salt.  Pour into the prepared pan.  Place the loaf pan in a cold oven.  Set the oven control to 300 F. Bake  the banana bread for 1 1/2 hours or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.  Cool the bread for 5 minutes on a wire rack.  Then remove from the pan and cool completely, right side up.