Ripe Banana Loaf:)

Ingredients

250 g self raising flour
1 level mixed spice
1/2 ts salt
125 g caster sugar
125 g butter
1 tb honey
125 sultanas
100 glace cherries
100 g blanched almonds
500 g ripe bananas
2 eggs

Instructions

Juice of 1 lemon Sift flour, spice, salt, and caster sugar, into a bowl. Chop butter into small pieces and add that, and then all remaining ingredients remember to peel the bananas first and mash them with a fork. Mix thoroughly. Turn the mixture into a 22cm [9"] loaf tin. Bake at 180c for one hour, then for another 1/2 hour at 160c. Remove from the tin and cool on a rack. Serve thinly sliced and buttered like most tea loaves, it tastes all the better for keeping. From Ron's (and Lillian's) Plaice in Blackpool:)