¼ cup buttermilk
2½ cups flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
1¼ tsp baking powder
½ cup butter, softened
¾ tsp baking soda
¾ cup packed brown sugar
¾ tsp salt
½ cup granulated sugar
1½ cups ripe bananas, mashed
3 large eggs, room temp.
Heat
oven to 350º. Grease and flour a
9x5-inch loaf pan. Whisk together flour,
baking powder, baking soda, salt in a medium bowl. Combine bananas, buttermilk and vanilla in another bowl. Beat butter and sugars in a large mixer bowl
at medium-high speed until well combined, 5 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating 30 seconds with each
addition. Reduce speed and beat in half
the flour mixture. Beat in half the
banana mixture, just until combined. Repeat with remaining flour and banana
mixtures. Fold in nuts. Scrape batter evenly into the prepared
pan. Bake 70 to 72 minutes, until a
toothpick inserted into the center comes out almost clean. Cool 5 minutes. Loosen sides of pan; unmold onto a wire
rack. Cool completely. Makes 12 servings. (Recipe from Ladies' Home Journal, October
2001)
