Whole Wheat Banana Bread

 

An easy and delicious treat from Santa Dave.

1/2 Cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
1 Cup sugar
2 eggs, slightly beaten
3 medium-sized ripe bananas (1 Cup mashed)
1 Cup all-purpose flour (sift before measuring)
1/2 tsp. salt
11/2 tsp. baking soda
1 Cup whole wheat flour
1/3 Cup hot water
1/2 Cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Melt butter and blend in sugar. Mix in beaten eggs and mashed bananas, blending until smooth. Sift all-purpose flour again with salt and baking soda. Stir in whole-wheat flour. Add dry ingredients alternately with hot water. Stir in chopped nuts. Turn into a greased 9x5" loaf pan. Bake in a moderately slow oven (325°) for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Check for doneness at 45 minutes if baking smaller loaves.*
* We found for holiday gift-giving, simply double the recipe for a yield of eight mini loaves (we used 4x2" paper mini loaf molds). Bake for 55 minutes to 1 hour. Bread is done when toothpick inserted into middle comes out clean.
Dave started long ago in 1966 with a recipe from the Sunset Cook Book of Breads and adjusted and adapted his way to a family favorite everyone loves .
Prep. time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 50-70 minutes
Yield: 1 loaf