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Date Posted: 10/11/07 4:55:20pm
Author: CB
Subject: Best Banana Bread

Topping, put on after baking:

6 tablespoons butter
10 tablespoons dark brown sugar
5 tablespoons milk
1 cup or more, chopped pecans

Batter:

1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
4 very ripe bananas, mashed * or 1 3/4 cup mashed bananas
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
4 tablespoons buttermilk
2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 350� F.

Cream butter and sugar. Mash bananas, beat 2 eggs and add to the bananas with vanilla and buttermilk; mix well and add to creamed butter and sugar.

Sift together flour, soda and salt. Add to banana mixture, beat well.

Pour into 2 greased and floured 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pans.

Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until bread pulls away from sides of pan. Cool.

To prepare Topping:

Melt butter in saucepan. Add sugar and milk. Cook until very syrupy. Remove from heat and add chopped pecans. Pour over bread spreading to all the corners and place under broiler until bubbly and brown. Watch closely.

Yield=2 loaves

*I use the rottenest bananas I can find! Sometimes they are so black, my husband throws em out. That's just how ripe they are!"

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