1/2 c Butter or margarine

1 c Brown sugar

2 x Eggs

1 c Mashed bananas

1 ts Vanilla

2 c Flour

1 ts Baking soda

1 ts Salt

1/2 c Chopped walnuts

Cream butter and sugar. Gradually add eggs, then bananas and vanilla. Fold in dry ingredients that have been sifted together. Add nuts. Bake in buttered loaf pan, at 350 degrees, for 1 1/4 hours or until loaf tests done. Cool in pan for 10 minutes and then turn out to cool completely.