Recipe: Banana Bread

Banana Bread
1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
6 ripe bananas
4 eggs
2 1/4 cups all pupoe flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsps baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans, optional

Directions
Cream shortening and sugar. Mash bananas and add to creamed mixture. Add eggs, on at a time beating after each addition. Sift flour, salt, and soda together and add to banana mixture. Add vanilla and pecans,. Pour into  2 greased and floured 9x5x2 loaf pans and bake at 350 degrees for
45 minutes or until done.
Yields 2 loaves