How to bake nanny's banana bread (updated)

Get your ingredients together. Brown bananas work best... This is good as I don't like to eat them when they're too ripe.

Start with 1/2 cup of shortening in a large bowl. Use an extra tsp & grease your loaf tin at the same time. *Boil the kettle now & save time later.

Add 1 cup of sugar to the shortening.

Cut the sugar into the shortening.

Blend sugar & shortening together by hand until crumbly.

Add 1 1/2 cups of flour.

Blend by hand (I use a knife) until mixture is crumbly.

Add 1/2 tsp of nutmeg and mix it in. (Note: at this point you may also add nuts or chocolate chips if you like!)

In a separate bowl or measuring cup mash up the bananas.

Mix in 1 tsp vanilla.

Add 1 egg.

Mix all wet ingredients.

Pour banana mixture into dry ingredients.

Mix banana mixture into dry ingredients until everything is wet.

Add a 1/4 cup boiling water to 1 tsp baking soda to dissolve.

Pour soda and water in & mix well to loosen up batter

Pour batter into the greased loaf pan.

Bake at 350 for 1 hour. (May require an extra 10 minutes depending on the oven.)

Let it cool then just tip it out of the loaf pan. Yum!