interesting recipe
Nigella’s Banana Bread(slightly adapted from Nigella Lawson’s How To Be A Domestic Goddess)
100 grams raisins (the original calls for sultanas but they are hard to come by over here)
75 ml rum (the original calls for bourbon or dark rum…I used this)
175 grams all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
125 grams unsalted butter, melted
150 grams sugar
2 large eggs
300 grams very ripe bananas (peeled weight), mashed
60 grams chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Place the raisins in a small saucepan with the rum and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat, cover, and leave to soak for an hour. Drain and set aside.
- In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- In a larger bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until blended. Add to this the eggs, one at a time, and then the mashed bananas. Using a wooden spoon, mix in the walnuts, drained raisins, and the vanilla.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients, a third at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Scrape the batter into a buttered and floured, or parchment-lined, loaf pan and bake in a pre-heated 170C oven for about 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Leave it in the pan on a wore rack to cool.
