{Old fashioned} Banana Nut Bread Recipe with Video

5 from 4 votes

{Old fashioned} Banana Nut Bread Recipe with Video

An old fashioned recipe that is tried and true. Delicious to the last bite.

Prep Time10

Active Time1

Course: bread

Cuisine: American

Yield: servings

Calories: 335cal

Author: Melissa

Materials

2 cups granulated sugar
½ cup butter
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
½ cup buttermilk
1 tsp. baking soda
3 large bananas ripe - mashed
3 cups flour all-purpose
1 tsp. salt
½ cup chopped walnuts

Instructions

In a large bowl, Cream sugar, and butter
Add eggs and beat well
Add vanilla
Mix baking soda with the buttermilk and add this to the bowl
Add mashed bananas
In a medium bowl, mix flour, and salt
Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture and mix in
Fold in walnuts
Mix and pour into 2 greased loaf pans
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour

Notes

*I've had some comments on Pinterest about the amount of sugar used. I do find that the older recipes have a lot more sugar than we are used to. If 2 cups of sugar seems extreme to you, you can cut it back to 1 cup. One pinner even noted that they only used 1/2 cup and it was still sweet.

nutrition facts are only an estimate

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