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Here is another recipe using bananas, by Angela Hartnett called Liz's Banana Bread, but looks more like a cake to me. By the ingredients though, I imagine it would taste rather good.

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Makes 1 loaf (12 slices)
100g sultanas
75ml rum
4 small, ripe bananas
175g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp salt
25g butter, plus extra for greasing the tin
150g caster sugar
2 large eggs
60g walnuts, roughly chopped

Put the sultanas in a bowl with the rum and leave to soak.

Grease a 900g loaf tin with butter and line with greaseproof paper. Preheat the oven to 170C/fan 150C/gas mark 3½.

Peel and mash the bananas – you need about 300g in all.

Sift the flour with the baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt.

Melt the butter, then mix it with the sugar in a large bowl. Beat in the eggs, then add the flour mixture and stir well. Add the mashed bananas, walnuts, sultanas and rum.

Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 45–60 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin, before turning out. Store in an airtight cake tin.