banana bread

this is the best recipe because it occurs to me to make it whenever the bananas go bad.

ingredients:
1/2 shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 generous cup mashed bananas (brown works best)
1 t lemon juice
1 t vanilla
2 cups flour
3 t baking powder
1/2 salt

instructions:
-preheat oven to 375 degrees.
-cream shortening and sugar together.
-in separate bowl, mix eggs, bananas, lemon juice and vanilla and then add to sugar mixture.
-in separate bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, and salt and add to mixture.
-grease a loaf pan and spoon mixture into the pan.
-bake for about an hour.
-let cool for ten minutes then remove from pan and wrap to keep moist.

makes one loaf

original recipe from the Christian bed and breakfast cookbook, rebecca germany, editor, barbour publishing, 1962. changes made by devon.