Banana Bread

  In my trusty box of recipe cards, there are two for banana bread. I've made them both recently, and decided to keep just this one:

3 mashed bananas

6 tablespoons melted butter

1/2 cup white sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 large room-temperature egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 and 1/2 cup flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 325F and grease a 9"x5" loaf pan. 

Whisk first four ingredients till well blended. Then whisk in egg and vanilla.

In a separate bowl, sift together flour, soda, and salt. Add to the wet ingredients and stir just until blended. Don't overdo it. Place in greased pan.

Bake 75 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clean.

Cool for 20 minutes in the pan, then turn out to cool completely on a rack.