Categories: Breads 
      Yield: 1 recipe 
  
      1 c  Walnut pieces 
  1 1/2 c  Mashed bananas * 
  2 1/4 c  Granulated sugar 
    3/4 c  Solid Crisco shortening 
      3    Eggs 
      3 c  Sifted all-purpose flour 
      1 ts Baking powder 
  1 1/4 ts Baking soda 
    3/4 ts Salt 
      6 tb Buttermilk 
  
  * About 3 - 4 large, they can be overrippened and black. 
   
  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Chop walnuts in blender (remove nuts from 
  blender and set aside).  Cut bananas into pieces; puree in blender jar. 
  With electric mixer, cream sugar & shortening at medium speed. Add eggs to 
  creamed mixture and beat until light and fluffy. Add puree banana mixture 
  to above. Mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add 
  to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Mix thoroughly. Fold in 
  nuts. Pour into greased and floured tube pan (can be made in loaf bread 
  pan's also).  Bake 60 - 70 minutes or until btread tests done with a cake 
  tester.  Cool in pan on wire rack for 1 hour, remove from pan to serving 
  dish.