Banana Bread

-Aunt Deborah Hardy

3/4 cup butter/margarine
1-1/2 cups sugar (3/4 cup white, 3/4 cup brown)
1-1/2 cups mashed bananas
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups sifted flour
1 tsp. soda
3/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup chopped walnuts

Cream butter and sugar together and add eggs, vanilla and bananas. Sift dry ingredients. Add buttermilk alternately with flour. Start and end with flour. Add nuts. Grease and flour and end with flour. Add nuts. Grease and flour 2 small loaf pans (2 small and 1 medium for double recipe.) Bake at 325 for 1-1/4 hours (50-55 min).