Favorite Banana Nut Bread

From Diana Rattray,
Your Guide to Southern U.S. Cuisine.

This is a moist, buttery banana bread loaded with banana flavor.

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons soda 
4 cups flour
6 large bananas, very ripe, mashed
1 cup finely chopped pecans

PREPARATION:
Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Sift dry ingredients together; add to creamed mixture. Stir in bananas and chopped pecans. 

Pour banana nut bread batter into 2 well-greased loaf pans; bake at 325 for about 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 

This banana nut bread recipe makes 2 loaves.