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[The Dogmother]

Clare's banana loaf

 

Line a 2lb loaf tin and pre-heat the oven to Gas 4 or 180/350 deg

75g soft butter or marg

4 ripe bananas, peeled and mashed

200g light muscovado sugar

1 egg, beaten

1tbsp vanilla extract (I use the one from Lakeland)

1 pinch salt

170g plain flour (you can also use spelt flour)

1tspn of all spice

 

Put everything except the flour in a bowl and mix together, then add the flour a little at a time. I do this in my Kenwood mixer.

 

Pour into the loaf tin and bake for roughly 50 minutes, or until a skewer in the middle comes out clean.

 

Delicious served warm with butter

 

I sometimes add chopped walnuts, which take it to a new level of sublime-ness

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Oooo a use for the part pack of spelt flour in the cupboard !!!

 

Will have to find some 'nanas, I know I bought some yesterday......

 

Sha x

[The Dogmother]

I've not made it with spelt myself Sha, but I hear that it's fine.

[Chook n Boo Mum]

When you say "all spice" do you mean "mixed spice"?

 

Sha x

[The Dogmother]

Yup, same thing, just not Old Spice!

 

My pot has All Spice on it for some reason.

[BarbaraJ]

Hey i've been wondering lately is light muscovado sugar the same as light soft brown sugar?

[The Dogmother]

Not the same, but you can use either in this recipe.

 

Light muscovado is less refined than brown sugar - I prefer it and take it in my tea as the flavour is lovely. The cake will taste more toffee-ish if you use it.

[Becka]

Silly question but how do you know the size/weight of the tin? I'd love to try this but I'm not sure about the size of tin to use.

Becka

[The Dogmother]

Mine says 2lb on it!

 

It's about 8" long if that helps

[Becka]

Thanks for that. Since my tin is 12", I'll make the recipe and a half. Not that I want to start tine envy or anything like that but I bought a 30cm tin for making Chickencam's bread recipe and find that tins can all of a sudden multiply!

Becka

[hillfamily]

and there was me wondering what to do with the browning bananas that are perched on top of the fruit bowl

 

I'll be back in a little while

[The Dogmother]

It will make your kitchen smell divine Pamster

 

I made tow on Sunday night and took one to Phil's folks. They liked it too.

 

Lovely warm with a smear of butter.

[hillfamily]

well it's in the oven and I've added walnuts :D

[The Dogmother]

Oooo, I await your verdict.

[hillfamily]

mmmmmmmm

 

sorry.....can't say much more.....eating banana loaf

[The Dogmother]

know the feeling Pam!

[Geoid]

Made some yesterday and today (late night baking again!) It tastes delicious! Although I used caster sugar because I didn't have any light mucavado and I used cinnamon instead of all spice (because I didn't have any of that too)

[The Dogmother]

Better get shopping Fred!

[WitchHazel]

Hi Clare

 

Just about to try this, sounds yummy and I happen to have four bananas needing using.

 

Just wanted to clarify, th. "Allspice" and "Mixed Spice" aren't the same, although it probably won't matter in this sort of recipe. However, you can't always interchange them.

 

Allspice is actually a mix of special jamaican peppers which gives off a flavour and smell of cinnamon/nutmeg/cloves (which I guess is how it got its name). It's commonly used in curries or pickling.

 

Mixed spice is ground cloves/nutmeg/cinnamon and ginger, whth a bit of allspice thrown in to enhance the smell. It's usually used in sweet dishes. (In the Middle East its used in savoury dishes).

 

You couldn't use mixed spice successfully in pickling, for exanple.

 

 

EDITED TO ADD:

It's in the oven, smells divine!