• Cooking Time: 70 minutes
• 2 well-beaten eggs
• 1 C ripe banana, mashed
• 1-3/4 C sifted flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/3 C butter or shortening
• 2/3 C sugar

1. Butter a bread pan.
2. Mash banana.
3. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
4. Cream butter and sugar, beat until light and fluffy.
5. Add eggs to butter-sugar mixture and beat thoroughly.
6. Alternately add the sifted dry ingredients and the banana to the butter-sugar-egg batter, beating after each addition until the batter is smooth.
7. Turn the batter into a buttered bread pan.
8. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for about 70 minutes.

Sally Jackson was a friend From Cornell and Argonne. Photo by Elise Bauer from Simply Recipes: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/banana_bread/