Banana Tea Bread

Ingredients 

110g margarine at room temperature
225g caster sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp lemon juice
3 bananas
225g plain flour
3 tsps baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
60g walnuts

Method

• Preheat oven to 160°C / Gas Mark 3
  
  
• Grease a 1kg loaf tin
  
  
• Break the eggs into a jug and beat lightly
  
  
• Cream the margarine and sugar and add the eggs
  
  
• Mash the bananas with a fork and still into the mixture with the lemon juice
  
  
• Chopped walnuts roughly
  
  
• Gently mix in the flower, salt, baking powder and chopped walnuts
  
  
• Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin smoothing the top
  
  
• Bake for an hour to an hour and a quarter until the top is brown and the loaf is cooked through
  
  
• Turnout onto a wire rack to cool completely
  
  
• Serve sliced

Makes 1 loaf