Banana Bread

This recipe is great with your morning coffee, tea or favorite juice. You may add raisins, prunes, walnuts and a little bit of brandy for more flavor to this bread.

1 ½ cup ripe bananas-mashed
2 ¼ cup all purpose flour
½ tsp. baking powder
1 ½ tsp. vanilla1 cup sugar2 eggs
½ cup butter-melted

Sift flour, sugar and baking soda. Add butter and bananas (as well other dried fruit and nuts) to dry mixture. Beat by hand until all ingredients are mixed. Add eggs, vanilla and melted butter to mixture. In a greased bread pan, spread mixture. Bake at 375 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Bread is done when inserting a knife in center of bread the knife comes out clean.

Serves 8

01/2008 By: Jorge Rodriguez in San Francisco Source: A COOKBOOK created by the Clinica Esperanza Community - Flavours from the Heart (Un LIBRO DE RECETAS creado por los miembros y amigos de la Clinica Experanze - Sabores del

Corazón)