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kilikini

hahabogus wrote:
> Rusty > wrote in news:_
> :
>
>>>
>>> I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on,
>>> please.
>>>
>>> kili
>>>
>>
>
> Banana Bread-(from Nigella Lawson's Domestic Goddess cookbook)
>
> 100g sultanas
> 75ml bourbon or dark rum
> 175g plain flour
> 2 teaspoons baking powder
> half teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
> half teaspoon salt
> 125g unsalted butter, melted
> 150g sugar
> 2 large eggs
> 4 small, very ripe bananas (about 300g weighed without skin), mashed
> 60g chopped walnuts
> 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
>
> 23 x 13 x 7cm loaf tin, buttered and floured or with a paper insert
>
> 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 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 the loaf tin and bake in the middle of the oven for 1 to 1
> and a quarter 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.
>
> Makes 8-10 slices

Oooooooh, anything with bourbon in it has GOT to be good! Thank you so very
much my dear friend. (I have a feeling I'll be trying all of these recipes
over the next year and deciding which one is *my* personal favorite!)

kili