Date and Banana Cake

Ladies in Germany feeding pilgrims

with cake - excellent!  I have lots of aprons just

like this and indeed it could be us outside St. Mary's on a cake sale Sunday, except we do not have such a posh canopy, would be nice!

Unfortunately this entry gives no idea why I didn't just go out and get some eggs.  We were still living in Stoke Road at this time, and maybe my back was too painful, it was a difficult time, though the rest was improving the spasms.

Friday

28^th September 2001

Date and Banana Cake

My information for this cake is -

'I had three very ripe bananas and no eggs and wanted to make a cake for Luke and Claire and found this recipe which I added to.'

Oven: 160 C for 50 minutes

Ingredients;

10 oz SR flour + 1 tsp baking powder

6 oz chopped dates

3 ripe bananas

mixed spiece, ginger and vanilla

½ pint milk

4 oz margarine or butter

poppy and sesame seeds

water icing

1. Put the flour in a bowl and add the chopped dates (I chop with scissors)
2. Mash the bananas with milk and melted margarine or butter.
3. Mix in some seeds for crunch and taste.
4. Then add banana mixture to the flour with a spoonful of mixed spice and one of ginger and some vanilla essence. You can vary the spicey mixture to your taste. Mix everything very well.
5. Bake for up to one hour
6. Cool and water ice (add boiling water to icing sugar until it is spreading consistency and use to ice the cake with a hot knife (dipped in boiling water))
7. This cake is lovely and moist and moorish.