Banana Bread

Heat the oven to 175 C. Butter a 23 x 13 cm loaf pan and line the base and long sides with baking paper.

In a large bowl, mash bananas with a fork until almost smooth. Stir in butter, brown sugar, egg and vanilla extract.

Sprinkle baking soda and salt over banana mixture and stir in. Add all purpose flour and fold gently until no dry flour shows; a few lumps are fine. Fold in walnuts.

Scrape banana batter into lined loaf pan and bake until risen and deep golden, and a toothpick in the centre comes out with only moist crumbs. Cover loosely with foil after 40 minutes if it browns too fast.

Cool baked loaf in the pan for 10 minutes, then lift out and cool on a rack before slicing.