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The Fair Trade Cook Book
The FAIRTRADE COOKBOOK
Fair Trade Recipes for a Fairer World

Fairtrade Banana Bread

The best possible use for very ripe bananas (apart from making wine which takes a lot longer).
We think Costa Rica is the home of Banana Bread.
FAIRTRADE bananas are widely available in UK.

Ingredients

5 FAIRTRADE ripe (spotty) bananas
200 gm FAIRTRADE caster sugar
150 gm butter
2 hens eggs
50 ml natural yoghurt
225 gm plain flour
5 ml baking soda
50 gm each chopped
Fair Trade walnuts,
Fair Trade cashew nuts,
FAIRTRADE brazil nuts
generous splash FAIRTRADE rum
FAIRTRADE Sources
Bananas
Nuts
Sugar
Rum

Method

Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 4.
Mix together into a smooth paste the butter and the sugar.
Mash in the bananas.
Mix in the remaining ingredients.
Pour into a greased bread tin.
Bake for 90 minutes.

To serve

Serve cool.

Variation

Vary the nuts according to what is in hand.
If you experiement with this at all, please let the Fairtrade Cookbook webmaster know the results.