Makes: 12 slices
Takes: 10 minutes plus 1 hour cooking time
Ingredients
4 very ripe bananas
2 3/4 oz butter or margarine
7 oz brown sugar
1 egg
1 tbsp vanilla essence
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
pinch of salt
8 oz plain flour
Method
- Pre-heat the oven to 180oC (fan oven) and grease and line a 2lb loaf tin.
- Mash the bananas to a pulp with the butter (softened if necessary). Mix in the sugar, the egg (beaten), and the vanilla essence.
- Sift in the bicarbonate of soda, salt and flour and mix everything together thoroughly. Pour into the prepared tin.
- Bake for about an hour, until a skewer inserted into the middle of the loaf comes out clean. If the top starts to look too brown before the centre is cooked, cover loosely with some foil.
- Cool in the tin for 10 minutes then turn out onto a wire cooling rack. It's easier to remove the lining paper after the loaf has cooled down. Allow to cool completely before slicing.
Freezes well, either as a complete loaf or as individual slices. Pop a frozen slice into a packed lunch and it will have defrosted by lunchtime!
