by Carol Larsson

Created on: February 08, 2010   Last Updated: February 18, 2010

                           


This is a very nice but slightly different recipe for  banana bread, as it includes dried fruit and it uses tea to pre-soak the dried fruit. The tea used to soak the fruit is usually black tea (English breakfast perhaps) although I have made this with green tea and had very good results.

The dried fruit can be a mix of sultanas, raisins etc.
The flour can be wholemeal (whole wheat) or white use which ever you prefer.

Banana Tea Bread
 
6oz or 150 grams or 1cup dried mixed fruit

½ pint or 250 mls or 1 ¼ cups freshly made hot tea                                                                                                                               
                                              
5oz or 150 grams or ¾ cup sugar

Mix the above ingredients together and leave the fruit to soak overnight (you can get away with soaking it for two or three hours). It is best to use hot tea because then the sugar will dissolve easily.

2 ripe bananas mashed
1 egg
12oz or 340 grams or 2 ½ cups self-raising flour or all-purpose (plain) flour with 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon mixed spice or cinnamon

Grease and line a 2lb loaf tin.

Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl. Then put into the greased and lined loaf tin. Bake in a moderate oven at gas mark 4, 350 f, or 180c for 1-1 ½ hours until well risen and golden and a toothpick comes out clean.
Leave to cool slightly in the tin, then turn out, and leave to cool completely.

This is nice if sliced thinly and spread with butter.

Although as the recipe has no fat of any kind you can just eat it without.

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