Amazing Banana Bread

1 c. softened butter
1 tsp. salt
2 c. sugar
3 ½ c. flour
2 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. lemon juice
2 tsp. baking powder
4 eggs
1 c. sour cream
5 ripe bananas
½ c, nuts (optional)


Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla, lemon juice and eggs and beat well. Stir in mashed bananas. Sift together salt, flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Combine with banana mixture. Add sour cream, and nuts. Pour into 2 greased 9x5 inch bread pans. Bake at 350 for 1 to 1 ½ hours, or until surface springs back when touched. Cool in pans. Makes 2 loaves.

My oven cooks hot, so I cooked it at 340.

The original recipe says to use 4 mashed bananas before the dry ingredients and stir in one coarsely chopped banana when you put in the sour cream. I didn’t do it that way.