Banana Nut Pumpkin Bread

__Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup pureed pumpkin
• 3/4 cup ripe banana, mashed
• 3 cup flour, unsifted
• 1 1/2 teaspoons soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or nutmeg
• 1/2 to 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Preparation

• cream the butter and sugar
• add eggs and beat well
• sift the flour , soda, salt and pumpkin pie spice and mix into the creamed mixture until blended
• stir in nuts
• spoon into two greased and flour dusted loaf pans (4 x 8) not more than 2/3 full
• bake at 350° until they test clean (about 1 hour)
• cool in pans for a few minutes then turn out on to rack to cool
• store tightly wrapped

Notes

• adapted from Sunset magazine when we lived on Hocking Ave., Grass Valley

-- FloydPerryThistle - 30 Oct 2003