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.