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I love banana bread (so does my whole family), but I have always hated having to mash and measure the bananas.  Years ago, when I got my Oster mixer, the cookbook that came with it had a recipe for banana bread without mashing the bananas.  My old mixer has passed on, and a new one has taken its place.  The recipe, thankfully, works with this mixer as well.

INGREDIENTS

1 / 2 Cup shortening

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon soda

2 cups flour (I use 1 cup unbleached white flour and 1 cup whole wheat flour.)

3 ripe bananas

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a bread pan.  (I use the disposable aluminum ones.) Place all ingredients in the large mixing bowl for your mixer.  Mix with the electric mixer till ingredients are combined.  Pour into the greased loaf pan.  Bake at least 1 hour and 10 minutes or till a tooth pick comes out clean.

I like it best warm with butter and peanut butter.

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