1/2 cup butter or margarine 1/2 tsalt
2 cups sugar 11/2 t soda
2 eggs 1/2 cup buttermilk
2 cups mashed bananas 1///2 cup chopped nuts
3 cups flour
cream butter and sugar, add eggs and beat until smooth. add bananas. combine flour & salt. dissolve soda in buttermilk/ add dry mixture to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. pour into 9 or 10 inch tube pan/ I use two loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Less for two loaf pans. I sometimes add cocoa to mixture to make chocolate banana bread.