Nigella's banana bread
100g sultanas
75ml bourbon/rum (I've used apple juice sccessfully though!!)
175g plan flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
half teaspoon bicarb
half teaspoon salt
125 g butter (melted)
150g sugar
2 large eggs
4 ripe bananas, mashed
60g walnuts (I've never put these in)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
loaf tin, buttered and floured or lined with greaseproof paper
Put sultanas & rum in saucepan, bring to the boil and leave for an hour or until the liquid's mostly been absorbed. This plumps up the sultanas. Drain.
Preheat oven to GM 3 170 C
Put flour, baking powder, bicarb and salt in a bowl and mix.
In another bowl, mix butter & sugar and beat until blended (or use a mixer!!)
Beat in eggs one at a time and then the bananas.
Stir in walnuts, sultanas and vanilla.
Add the flour mix 1/3 at a time, stirring well each time.
Scrape into loaf tin (I've had to pour it on occasions!) and bake in the middle of the oven for 1 - 1.2 hours. Leave in the tin to cool.
This freezes well (slice it before freezing and then you can defrost it with 30s in the microwave) and also comes up well with thawed frozen banananas.