VICKI'S BANANA NUT BREAD

      Title: VICKI'S BANANA NUT BREAD
  Categories: Quick bread, Friends, Gainesville
       Yield: 6 Servings
  
     1/2 c  Butter, unsalted
     3/4 c  Light brown sugar, packed
       1 lg Egg
       1 c  Flour, whole wheat
     1/2 c  Flour, white
       1 ts Baking soda
     3/4 ts Salt
     1/2 ts Ginger, ground
     1/4 ts Mace
   1 1/4 c  Bananas (2 or 3)
       4 tb Yogurt (1/4 Cup)
     1/2 ts Vanilla extract
       1 c  Pecans, chopped (5 oz.)
       1 c  Dates, chopped
  
   Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cream butter, add sugar. Beat together
   till light and creamy.  Beat in egg.
   
   Sift together flours, baking soda, salt and spices (can substitute
   pumpkin pie spice for mace).
   
   Mash bananas well and combine and yogurt, stirring just till mixed.
   Stir in vanilla.
   
   To butter and sugar, add dry ingredients alternately with banana
   mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Mix just enough to combine
   well.
   
   Stir in pecans and dates.  Bake in greased and floured 9x5 loaf pan
   50-60 minutes.  Cool in pan 5-10 minutes; then cool on rack.
   
   Originally got this recipe from Nancy Phelps' copy of a _New York
   Times_ "health food" book.
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