❨( let's go bananas

For my first cakey blog I'll share this recipe with you ....

*drum roll please*

Banana Teabread :

This was one of the first things I baked when I moved

away from home, to a house I shared with 5 other girlies :

Helen, a few years older than me and a keen cook,

would fill the house with savoury smells :

*she made a mean curry!*

so I decided to make us all a cake :

delving into a 2nd hand cookbook, *the title I don't recall* 
I made the first cake away from Mama's kitchen :

it's a recipe that I've never forgotten and is a winner all round :

*that is, if you like bananas*

You will need :

125g butter

125g sugar

2 eggs

250g self raising flour

½ teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

500g bananas

*a little note on bananas ~ it's better to use them when they're 

soft and even bruised as it adds to the flavour*

set your oven to 180°c/ 350°f/gas 4 :

line and grease a 1kg loaf tin :

in a large bowl ➸

mix the butter and sugar together with a fork until light and fluffy :

beat in the eggs ~ one at a time :

 mash up the bananas, add to the bowl and stir :

then sift in the flour and bicarb and fold into the mixture :

*don't over work it at this stage or you'll make your teabread heavy *

pour into your prepared loaf tin and bake

for 1 to 1¼ hours ....

*as ovens vary ....after an hour check your loaf, push a 

skewer through the centre to see if it's cooked through*

turn out and cool on a rack :

now this is best eaten after a day ~ trust me!

store in an airtight container until then :

slice and eat as it is or buttered with lashings of jam, or honey,
or peanut butter or chocolate spread :

yum :

*will keep for 3-4 days ~ if there's any left!*