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Title of recipe*
Banana Bread

Name of submitter*
Ben

Ingredients (please enter each one on a separate line)*
100 grams sultanas 75 ml dark rum (or bourbon) 175 grams plain flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda ½ teaspoon salt 125 grams unsalted butter (melted) 150 grams caster sugar 2 large eggs 4 small very ripe bananas (mashed) 60 grams chopped walnuts 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method*
Put the sultanas and rum or bourbon in a smallish saucepan and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat, cover and leave for an hour if you can, or until the sultanas have absorbed most of the liquid, then drain. Preheat the oven to 170ºC/gas mark 3/325ºF and get started on the rest. Put the flour, baking powder, bicarb and salt in a medium-sized bowl and, using your hands or a wooden spoon, combine well. In a large bowl, mix the melted butter and sugar and beat until blended. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the mashed bananas. Then, with your wooden spoon, stir in the walnuts, drained sultanas and vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture, a third at a time, stirring well after each bit. Scrape into a loaf tin (23 x 13 x 7cm / 9 x 5 x 3 inches) and bake in the middle of the oven for 1-1¼ hours. When it's ready, an inserted toothpick or fine skewer should come out cleanish. Leave in the tin on a rack to cool, and eat thickly or thinly sliced, as you prefer.

Serves 8-10 Add image

Comments (any other comments)
I haven't done a tremendous amount of fiddling with this, but I did once make it, for friends who are more chocolate-crazed than I am, by replacing 25g / 3 tablespoons of the flour with good cocoa powder (not drinking chocolate) and adding 100g / 4oz of dark chocolate, cut up into smallish chunks. And you could just as easily use the chocolate chips sold in the baking aisle of supermarkets. If you're thinking about giving this cake to children, don't worry, the alcohol doesn't pervade: you just end up with stickily, aromatically swollen fruit.

Source (The link to a website or cookbook or wherever it came from)
http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/banana-bread-142