Food For Thought Banana Cake
IBy ALAN TREMAIN]
1 often find bananas rather difficult to incorporate in a cake without the result being soggy, but the following recipe is a good one. Bake Banana Cake at 350 deg for about 30 minutes. You Will Need: 6oz sugar 2 eggs i teaspoon baking powder i teaspoon salt 1 cup lightly mashed bananas 4oz butter 9oz flour 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda. 2 sliced bananas i teaspoon vanilla essence i cupful sour milk. Method: Sift sugar and beat with butter until creamy. Whisk in eggs one at a time. Sift flour with baking powder and salt. Mix vanilla essence with the bananas. Lightly stir in onethird of flour into butter mixture alternately with a third of the banana beating the batter after each addition until smooth. Repeat this twice, place into two eightinch sandwich tins. Bake at
350 degrees F. for about 30 minutes. Cool on rack. Moisten banana sliced with some lemon juice or orange juice. Place between the layers. Cover the cake with lemon or orange icing. Serve with whipped cream.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30569, 12 October 1964, Page 2
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