Banana Bread

These days, recipes seem to rarely come from a cook book.  Instead, websites such as www.allrecipes.com make it easy to find someone else's family recipe from the convenience of a smart phone, laptop or iPad.  But there is one recipe for banana bread that I will continue to turn to in the pages of the Pillsbury Family Cook book.  So whether you are on the hunt for something new to offer your family for breakfast in the middle of the week, or whether you need something sweet to serve at Bible study, this banana bread uses ingredients you probably have in your kitchen right now!  I would like to share it with you:

Banana Bread

2 cups sifted all purpose flour
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup (2 medium-size) mashed bananas
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon lemon juice or vinegar
1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Sift flour with soda and salt.  Cream butter.  Gradually add sugar, creaming well.  Add eggs and bananas; blend thoroughly.  Combine milk and lemon juice.  Add dry ingredients to banana mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.  Blend well after each addition.  Stir in nuts.  Grease bottom of 9x5x3 inch pan.  Pour in batter.  Bake at 350 degrees for 60 to 70 minutes, until bread springs back when lightly touched in center.  Remove from pan.  Cool on wire rack.