World’s Greatest Banana Bread
(1 loaf, original recipe)

3 ripe or overripe bananas (4, if really small)
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 ½ cups flour (lucky you, no sifting necessary)
¼ cup (1/2 stick) melted butter or margarine
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
½ cup walnuts, coarsely chopped

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mash bananas in a large bowl using a fork or a potato masher. Add all of the other ingredients and combine until evenly blended. Pour into a lightly greased (using spray oil, cooking oil, butter or margarine) loaf pan (roughly 9” x 5” x 4”), using a spatula to scrape all of the batter into the loaf pan. Bake for 60-70 minutes, until toothpick inserted comes out clean (has no sticky dough; moist crumbs okay). Cool until you can’t wait any longer.