Recipe #27 Edna's Banana Nut Bread with Chocolate Chips

This is an Edna Staebler recipe from her Schmecks Appeal cook book. 

She say's "Can anything be better than the best? 

Try this and prove it. 

It will stay moist for a week." 

 Ingredients: 

1/2 cup butter 

1 cup sugar 

3 bananas, mashed 

2 eggs, beaten 

1/4 cup buttermilk 

1 tsp baking soda 

2 cups flour 

1/2 cup chopped nuts [pecans] 

3/4 cup of chopped chocolate pieces or chips 

 Instructions: 

 Cream the butter and sugar, then stir in the mashed bananas. 

Add eggs and mix well. Blend buttermilk and soda, then add to creamed mixture alternately with flour. Stir in the nuts and chocolate and turn into a large buttered loaf pan or 2 small pans. 

Bake at 350ºF for 1 hour, or until a spagheti noodle inserted into the centre come out clean. 

If you want to, you could add chopped maraschino cherries as well. 

*You might find, depending on your flour, that you need to add another 1/2 cup of flour to get the right consistency of batter. 

This comes with experience of making this cake a few times with cake flour or plain flour.