Today was another day filled with baking goodies for Christmas. Today’s baking included Mexican cookies, banana bread, and coconut cookies — an all time family favorite. Below is the family recipe for banana bread that we have always used. It is delicious spread with cream cheese mixed with honey.
Banana Bread
Ingredients:
½ cup shortening
1 ½ cups sugar
2 eggs
¾ cup mashed bananas
¾ cup chopped pecans
¼ cup buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups sifted flour
¾ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. baking powder
Directions:
1. Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Add bananas.
2. Sift flour, baking powder, soda, and salt. Add alternately with buttermilk to which vanilla has been added.
3. Stir in pecans.
4. Pour into 2 greased loaf pans and bake for 30 to 35 minutes at 350 degrees.
Tags: banana bread, coconut cookies, favorite family recipe, Mexican cookies
