In effort to preserve family recipes used at our home we’ve started this blog. The first post is about our favorite Banana Bread. It came to live by accident and it turned out to be very good and reusable over and over again. So here it goes.

Ingredients you will need:

• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 4 peeled over ripe bananas
• 1 duck egg or 2 chicken eggs
• 3 tablespoons of Myers’s Rum
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon himalayan salt
• 4oz Irish butter
• 1/3 cup pine nuts
• 1/3 cup raisins
• 1/3 cup cane sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

Before you start turn on your oven for 350F so it has time to warm up.

In a stainless steel bowl peel bananas

Pour over the rum and vanila extract and mash with fork

Add the pine nuts

And mix well

Next, add the duck egg (or two chicken eggs)

followed by salt, soda and baking powder

Mix to incorporate egg , and then and all of the sugar, rasins and flour

Melt butter in the microwave safe container for 30 seconds and pour over the flour

Mix slightly, just enough to see the flour incorporated

next, prepare your baking dish, I use loaf form

Lined up with parchment paper like so

Pour your batter into the form

And put into the already heated oven at 350F for exactly 50 minutes. It will look like this going out

Cool for about 15 minutes on a rack. And then slice and enjoy!