Whole Wheat Banana Bread

Here's another favorite, good in the Fall. Shared by Karen

Whole Wheat Banana Bread
From Sunset Bread Book

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 cup mashed ripe banana
1 cup flour, 1/2 t. salt
1 t. baking soda
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/3 cup hot water
1/2 cup chopped walnuts, optional

Melt butter and blend in sugar. Mix in beaten eggs and mashed banana, blending until smooth. In a bowl, stir together flour, salt, soda, and whole wheat flour. Add dry ingredients alternately with hot water. Stir in chipped nuts. Spoon batter into a greased 9x5 inch loaf pan. Bake in a 325* oven for a bout 1 hour and 10 minutes, until bread begins to pull away from sides of pan and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes; turn out onto rack to cool completely