Oatmeal Bread

Country Cooking

½ cup butter, softened

¼ cup honey

2 large eggs

3 small bananas, mashed

½ cup buttermilk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon salt

1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats

1 cup whole-wheat flour

½ cup all-purpose flour

1 cup pecans, chopped

Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Cream together butter and honey in a mixing bowl. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in mashed bananas, buttermilk and vanilla. In another bowl stir together all the dry ingredients including: baking powder, baking soda, salt, oats and both flours. Spoon the dry ingredients into the creamed ingredients and mix. Fold in nuts. Pour into a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Bake for about 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack.

Yield: 8 to 10 slices.

Carolyn Gass Hardimon, M. S. Home Economist