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title: 'Banana bread'
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markdown: 'https://recipes.spfinch.com/recipes/banana-bread.md'
date: '2009-12-18'
description: 'Nigella Lawson Ingredients 100g sultanas 75ml bourbon, whiskey or dark rum 175g plain flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda ½ teaspoon salt 125g butter 150g sugar 2 large eggs (or chia eggs) 4 small, ripe bananas (about 300g without skin) 60g chopped walnuts 1 teaspoon van…'
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# Banana bread

## Banana bread

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[Nigella Lawson](https://www.nigella.com/recipes/banana-bread)

Ingredients

**100g sultanas
75ml bourbon, whiskey or dark rum
175g plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
½ teaspoon salt
125g butter
150g sugar
2 large eggs** (or [chia eggs](https://recipes.spfinch.com/recipes/chia-egg)) **4 small, ripe bananas** (about 300g without skin)
**60g chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon vanilla extract**

Method

1. Put sultanas & rum/whiskey in a pot and bring to the boil, remove from heat and leave to soak.
2. Preheat oven to 170C/gas mark 3.
3. Cream butter & sugar.
4. Add eggs, one at a time, then the mashed bananas.
5. Stir in walnuts, sultanas & vanilla extract.
6. Add the flour and other dry ingredients, a third at a time.
7. Bake in the middle of the oven for 1-1½ hours.

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**Note:** *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.*

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