Recipe for cooking banana sour cream bread

Quick Meals- Soups and Bread :: Sweet Quick Breads

Banana Sour Cream Bread

2/3 C. butter or butter replacement
1 1/3 C. sugar
1 1/4 C. mashed ripe bananas
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 C. sour cream
1 tsp. baking powder
2 eggs
2 3/4 C. flour
1 tsp. salt
1 C. chopped walnuts or pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour the bottom only of a 9 x 5-in. bread loaf pan.

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and bananas until well blended. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with sour cream to banana mixture, stirring just to blend. Stir in walnuts. Spoon batter into prepared bread loaf pan. Bake 1 hr. and 15 min. or until wooden pick comes out clean. Let stand in pan on rack 20 min.

Remove from pan. Cool. Wrap in aluminum foil. Loaf is improved if left to stand overnight. Store in refrigerator or freeze for 2 months.