Banana Bread

My husband's family is made up exactly like The Brady Bunch... His family consisted of his dad and three sons.  Then his dad met his wife, who had two daughters... Okay, well, they're missing Jan, but still! Anyways, as a joke one Christmas, my hubby inherited a copy of Alice's Brady Bunch Cookbook.  This recipe comes from there.
It especially comes in handy when you were at the grocery store and thought you'd be healthy and buy some bananas---except you forgot that eating them was the important part.  So now you have a whole bunch of bananas that are getting a little mushy.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 6 large bananas, mashed
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

1. First, mash up your bananas.
2. In a separate, large bowl, cream together the butter an sugar until fluffy.  Add the eggs and beat well.
3. In another separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda and salt.  Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and mix well.
4. Fold in the mashed bananas and vanilla.
5. Pour the batter evenly into 2 greased 9x5-inch loaf pans.
6. Bake at 350° F for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
7. Cool for 10 minutes in the pans, then remove to racks.  Makes 2 loaves of banana-tasting goodness.

*Thanks to Kevin Week's Seriously Good for the picture. :)