Banana Bread...no yeast

Requires two 9 by 5 greased bread pans or one round bunt pan

Ingredients:

5 ripe bananas
4 eggs
1 cup of butter (or shortening)
1 /14 cups of brown sugar
1 1/4 cups of white sugar
1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
1 teaspoon of salt2 tsp. Baking soda

optional: pour 1/2 stick of melted butter over each pan before you place them in the oven

Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
In a medium bowl mash bananas and stir in eggs until well blended. Set aside.

In a large bowl, beat shortening and gradually add sugar. Stir in vanilla and banana mixture.

Separately mix flour, baking soda, and salt. Blend the dry mixture into the batter.
*Add walnuts if desired.

Pour into prepared pans.

Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, cool for 20 min then turn out onto a bread board

Baked Beans The Easy Way (Crock Pot or Oven)

• 2 cans of baked beans (prepared baked beans)
• 1 can red kidney
• 1 can black bean
• 1 can pinto bean
• 1can butter bean
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 c brown sugar
• 1/4 c molasses (I like dark Karo)
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/2 tsp dry mustard
• 1 Tbs chopped onion
• 1 c boiling water (only if you are baking the beans in the oven)
• 1/2 lb. piece of cooked ham (optional)
• 1 lb. cut up bacon or more....
  

Cook the bacon in a sauce pot or frying pan, pour off grease and pour into crock pot or baking pan Add cooked ham,
Add all of the beans at once.
Combine salt, sugar, molasses, bay leaf, mustard, onion and add to beans.
Let cook in crock pot for several hours

This recipe can also be made in a crock pot or placed in a baking dish and baked
for 45 min. If baked- pour the water over the top of the beans right before they go into the oven.

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