Banana Nut bread

3/4 cup butter
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup bananas, mashed
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 cups nuts, chopped (if desired)

Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter and sugar together until very light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in bananas and vanilla. Mix together flour, baking soda and salt and add alternately with buttermilk to the batter. Fold in nuts. Turn mixure into 2 well greased loaf pans and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Cook on a rack.

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