DATE AND BANANA LOAF

Recipe and photo: Angela Woods Schubach
I had a few over-ripe bananas so I whipped up a date and banana loaf.

125 g soft butter
125 g brown sugar
2 eggs
5 ml vanilla essence
3 large ripe bananas, mashed
100 g chopped dates
5 ml bicarb
80 ml hot water
10 ml lemon juice
375 ml cake flour
5 ml baking powder
Pinch of salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon ginger
Pour hot water over the chopped dates, add lemon juice and set aside.
Beat together the butter and brown sugar until creamy and add eggs one at a time and then the vanilla essence and mashed bananas.
Add to this the dry ingredients and then fold in the date mixture.
Transfer to a baking tin and bake at 180 ºC for 45 minutes.