Whole Wheat Banana Bread

Sharon Inanod

• 1/2 c. butter or margarine
• 1 c. sugar
• 2 eggs, slightly beaten
• 1 c. mashed, ripe bananas
• 1 c. all-purpose flour, unsifted
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1 c. whole wheat flour, unsifted
• 1/3 c. hot water
• 1/2 c. chopped walnuts

Melt butter, blend in sugar. Mix in beaten eggs and mashed bananas. Blend until smooth.

In bowl, stir together flours, salt and soda. Add dry ingredients alternately with hot water. Stir in chopped nuts, spoon into greased 9×5″ loaf pan.

Bake 325 degrees for 1 hour 10 minutes until bread begins to pull away from sides of pan and wooden skewer inserted in middle comes out clean.

Cool in pan 10 minutes. Then turn out to rack to cool completely.