{"id":7092,"date":"2020-07-27T13:12:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/?p=7092"},"modified":"2020-07-27T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:12:13","slug":"banana-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/27\/banana-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Banana bread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can use only dates, only figs or maybe experiment with apricots or other moist dried fruits. Your bananas should be really ripe, with spotty skins and maybe a few black bits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>125g butter<\/li><li>150g caster sugar<\/li><li>1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract<\/li><li>1 egg, beaten<\/li><li>3 very ripe bananas, mashed (4 if small)<\/li><li>190g self raising flour<\/li><li>60ml milk<\/li><li>150g dates, chopped into chunks<\/li><li>150g semi-dried figs, chopped into chunks<\/li><li>walnut pieces for decoration<\/li><li>a little demerara sugar to sprinkle over<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Method<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pre-heat the oven to 150 C (fan).<\/li><li>Grease and line a 2lb loaf tin.<\/li><li>Melt the butter, sugar and vanilla in a saucepan over a medium heat.<\/li><li>Remove from the heat. Add the bananas and mix well.<\/li><li>Add the egg, mix well.<\/li><li>Stir in the flour and milk.<\/li><li>Mix in the dates and figs.<\/li><li>Pour the mixture into the loaf tin.<\/li><li>Decorate with walnut pieces and sprinkle over a couple of spoons of demerara sugar to give a golden crunchy topping.<\/li><li>Into the oven and bake for 35 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean and there is a golden brown crust. Cooking time can vary according to the quantity and moisture content of the banana and fruit, sometimes up to 45 or 50 minutes.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use only dates, only figs or maybe experiment with apricots or other moist dried fruits. Your bananas should be really ripe, with spotty skins and maybe a few black bits. Ingredients 125g butter 150g caster sugar 1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 egg, beaten 3 very ripe bananas, mashed (4 if small) 190g self [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7093,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092\/revisions\/7093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}