Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   2      cups          sugar
   1      cup           Crisco
   3                    eggs
   5                    mashed bananas
   2      teaspoons     vanilla
   2      teaspoons     baking soda
   3      cups          all-purpose flour
   1      pinches       salt
     1/2  cup           buttermilk

Preparation:

Beat sugar, Crisco, eggs, banana and vanilla together. Combine baking soda, flour and salt and beat into sugar mixture alternately with buttermilk. Pour into greased loaf pan and bake in preheated 350-degree oven for 55 minutes or until it tests done when you insert a cake tester into the middle and it comes out clean.