Banana Bread

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup chopped nuts

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla and buttermilk and after beating a few seconds, add bananas. Add flour, soda and salt and mix well. Fold in nuts and pour into one large and one small greased loaf pans. Bake at 350 1 hour, check small pan after 45 minutes.