Grandma's Recipes #12 - Banana Cake

This recipe calls for sour milk, which most modern recipes would just refer to as buttermilk.  If you don't have buttermilk in the fridge, add 1 tbsp vinegar or lemon juice to a scant cup of regular milk, preferably whole milk.  As is unfortunately so common in Grandma's recipes, ingredients or amounts are missing.  In this case, the bananas are completely missing from the ingredient list.  I did some Googling to try and find similar recipes, and I would suggest starting with 2.  As always, [gray brackets] are my additions.

Banana Cake

1/2 c    shortening

1/2 c    sugar

2          eggs

[2        bananas]

1 tsp    vanilla

2 c       flour

1 stp    soda

1/8 tsp salt

1/2 c   sour milk

1/2 c   chopped nuts

Cream shortening and sugar.  Add eggs.  Add bananas.  Add dry ingredients alternately with milk.  Fold in nuts.  

Bake at 350 for 45 to 50 minutes [in a 9x13" pan.  Frost with cream cheese or chocolate frosting].