This bread is great to make when you have a bunch of overripe or frozen bananas to use up.

• 1/3 cup water
• 3/4 cup mashed ripe banana
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil, margarine or butter
• 1 large egg
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 3 tbsp brown sugar, packed
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups whole-wheat flour
• 1 tsp ground nutmeg or cinnamon
• 1 1/4 tsp bread-machine yeast
• 1/4 cup each raisins and chopped pecans (optional)

• Add all ingredients except raisins and nuts to machine according to manufacturer's directions.
• Select sweet or basic white cycle
• Add raisins and nuts at ingredient signal (or about 20 to 30 minutes into cycle after the starting time).