banana bread           2 cups sugar 3/4 cups butter 2 eggs 3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted 1/2 tsp. salt 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1 1/2 tsp. soda 1 1/8 cups buttermilk 1/2 tsp. vanilla flavoring 1 1/2 cups bananas, mashed 1 cups pecans, chopped 1/4 to 1/2 cup milk, if needed to moisten bread Cream the butter, add the sugar. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Sift the dry ingredients together. Add alternately with buttermilk. Add vanilla and bananas and nuts. Bake in loaf pans (2 big pans or 4 small loaf pans). Bake at 350 degrees. When the cake is done it will turn loose from side of pans.