Mom's Best Banana Bread

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 1/4 cups mashed bananas (4 to 5 medium bananas)
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/3 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 2/3 cup sugar (or splenda, whatever you like)
• 2 eggs, separated (large or medium)
• 1 1/2 ounces milk
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 tablespoons flax seeds
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts (optional) or 1/4 cup pecans (optional)

Recipe

• 1 cream together butter, sugar, & egg yolks until creamy.
• 2 sift dry ingredients together (flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon & nutmeg). alternately add the dry mixture to the creamed butter mixture as well as the milk & mashed bananas. beat the egg whites until a stiff peak forms and fold in with a wooden spoon, (make sure you only use a wooden spoon to do this - this is key), next - fold in the chopped nuts also stir in with the wooden spoon.
• 3 bake in a loaf pan that you have sprayed with olive oil or non-stick spray and dusted lightly with flour at 350° for approximately 45 minutes - insert a toothpick in the center of the loaf to ensure it is not runny, if it is - allow to bake an additional 5-10 minutes.
• 4 cool on a wire rack and serve with cream cheese or your favorite margarine.
• 5 note: i love to wait a day and then toast a piece in my toaster oven - it is so good when it gets re-heated and toasty with butter on it and a cup of coffee - yum!