Greetings Gastronauts, this is Keef Cooks, I’m Keef and today - banana bread!
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Before we start , a quick shout out to Alan Brown, my new Patreon fan. ‘Ello Alan, thank you!
And another shoutout to Ginny Kellum Young, who sent me this picture of some
bananas, a little bit past their best, but perfect for banana bread.
And the caption “you have to stop telling yourself you're going to make
banana bread - you're not going to make banana bread - just let them go maaaan.
So yes, I always have some bananas hanging about. Literally.
And so this is actually the second bunch where most of them have just gone black
because we haven't got around to eating them - I don't know why.
But of course the perfect thing to do with a black banana, or two, or three, is make banana bread.
So that's what we're going to do. If you enjoy this video, give it a like,
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For your banana bread, which isn't really bread, it's more like a cake, you will need a tin.
This is a two pound loaf tin - I’ll put the dimensions in the description below.
By the way if you're on mobile and you can't find the description,
there's a little arrow on the right edge of the screen underneath the video window.
And that will open up the panel with all the good stuff in it.
Because somebody was asking. Okay, so I’ve got 225 grams of
self-raising flour. I’ve got 175 grams of caster sugar - powdered sugar.
I’ve got 100 grams of softened, unsalted butter. Two eggs, two tablespoons of milk,
and one teaspoon of baking powder. And what else - oh yeah, bananas.
Beautiful, massively overripe bananas. Probably two or three of those
because they're quite small. A little bit of prep - got to peel the bananas.
They look and feel awful but inside they're perfectly fine as you can see,
just very very overripe. And by the way, the reason I
keep my bananas hanging up separate from any other fruit is that they give off a gas that
will cause other fruit to ripen rapidly… and it's not a good thing because basically
then they go off. I have to let it go maaan. Okay bleugh. Mash with a fork ...
I’m just going to chop the butter into smaller pieces so that they'll blend in more easily, and
smash the eggs into a bowl.
So I can pour them in more easily. And also make a bit more washing up as well.
Put all the dry ingredients in first of all and mix those together…
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and then add everything else.
It’s dead easy this. There was a bit of a craze during lockdown, y’know the Covid confinement,
when people were bored and started learning to cook and making videos of that.
And one of the things that most people made was banana bread.
But I didn't because I thought I’d already done it but it turns out I was wrong. That does happen.
You need to preheat your oven to 160 degrees Celsius for a fan oven/convection oven.
That's 180 for a normal one, and that is gas four.
And then we can set this to mix for about two minutes and while that's happening
I’m just going to butter the inside of my tin which makes no pretence at being non-stick.
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And this will make it nice and easy to remove the cake after you’ve baked it, or the bread.
Or the bread-cake. Or the cake- bread. You know, the banana stuff.
Let's get this going.
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Let's put the thingy on.
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Okay we're done so uh, take the thing off.
Chuck it in the tin and level off the top with a spatula as well as you can.
And then that goes in the oven for about an hour and then take it out and test it with a skewer.
If the skewer comes out clean it is done. All right, time's up.
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It's quite seriously dark.
And that is definitely clean. That is done. Okay that should be quite straightforward.
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Right we'll just let that cool down and then slice it open and have a taste.
Okay that’s had, well, a good half hour to cool down while I’ve been doing the washing up.
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And now it's taste test time with banana bread oh yes. Still warm. Yep delicious banana, nice crumb,
nice crust. I’ve seen things like this spread with butter and I’m sure that would be marvellous but
what it really desperately needs is a cup of tea Okay, banana bread, easy peasy.
Thanks for watching and see you next time. [ MUSIC ]