Recipe - Banana Bread

Banana bread - previously the most comforting cake to have with a cup of tea, now commonly known as the most popular bake during lockdown. Whatever it means to you, we have a cracking recipe for you to bake using Earl Grey tea to keep things moist… yes, you heard it, moist.

100 sultanas

80ml Earl Grey tea

175g plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

½ tsp salt

½ tsp ground cinnamon – I tend to for a splash!

125g butter, melted

150g maple syrup

2 large eggs

4 ripe bananas, mashed

1 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat the oven, at 170 degrees – or keep a space in the Baking Oven of the Aga . Grease your usual bread rectangle tin, whatever design you’d like your bread to look like

Put the sultanas in the tea, and leave to soak as you mix the rest. 

Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Melt the butter and the maple syrup over the heat, and keep mixing, then add to the dry ingredients and mix further. 

Beat in the egg, and then the mashed banana. Drain your sultanas, add to the mixture, and add vanilla extract. Mix away, fold if you desire. 

Scrape the mixture into the already greased pan, and left it off with a palette knife.

Cook for an hour, I find that it is more like 50 minutes in the Aga, but keep an eye on it past 40 minutes. 

When the skewer is clean, Bob’s your uncle. 

Remove from the over and allow to cool! 

Happy munching