HOW TO BAKE A BANANA BREAD

INGREDIENTS: 190 gram sugar, 3 ml vanilla essence, 4 ripe bananas, 1.5 ml salt, 1.5 ml bicarbonate of soda, 125 gram margarine or butter, 2 eggs, 240 gram flour, 10 ml baking powder,125 ml milk.

METHOD: Stir margarine and sugar together with a wooden spoon, add eggs, one at a time and mix well. Add vanilla essence.

Mash the bananas well and stir them into the mixture.

Sift 1/2 of the flour,salt,baking powder and bicarbonate of soda, and also 1/2 of the milk to the mixture and beat well with wooden spoon. Then add the rest of the flour etc, and milk and mix well.

Pour into a prepared, greased 24 x11 cm loaf tin and bake at 170 degrees Celcius for about 45 minutes. Could be less; check with fork.

This recipe is fail-safe.