Banana Bread My mother, Winnies recipe also Cookie Pie's recipe

2/3 cup sugar  1 3/4 cups Flour sifted
1/3 cup shortening, 1/4 tsp salt,  2 eggs
1/4 tsp baking soda  2 tsp baking powder
1 cup mashed bananas,  1/2 cups nuts  optional
1/2 cup dates ( chopped)  optional

Mix dry ingredients.  Add beaten eggs and shortening
Beat mixture until fluffy.  .
Add in ripe bananas that have been mashed up with a potato masher
and then measured 
Mix lightly.
Add in nuts and dates if you desire
Double recipe for  two loaves.   Bake 50 minutes to 1 hr at 350'F
Spray pans with cooking spray ... Be sure to get the corners well
Bake 50 minutes to 1 hr at 350' F until brown and bounces back on touch.
Cool and wrap to store


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I got the following recipe from the web site of  Cookie pie.
She is the food editor for All You magazine

I may try one loaf of this also...
Whole-wheat peanut butter-chocolate chip banana bread


Makes 1 8-inch loaf
1 cup whole-wheat flour,  1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda, 1/4 tsp salt

4 ripe bananas, mashed (if frozen, thawed)
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (I used Peanut Butter & Co.'s maple flavor)
1/2 cup sugar,  2 large eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 350°F; mist an 8-by-4-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.

2. In a small bowl, stir together both flours, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, mash bananas with a large fork. Stir in peanut butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla with a wooden spoon until well combined. Add the dry ingredients and stir until just combined; do not overmix. Fold in the chocolate chips.

3. Spoon the batter into the loaf pan and bake for 1 hour, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean. Let cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn bread out of pan onto rack to cool completely.
Beth or Cookie Pie is author of a new cookbook
"You Made That Dessert"
http://cookiepiebklyn.blogspot.com/