Banana bread

3 or 4 ripe bananas (=about 14oz peeled)
100g or 4 oz caster sugar
50g or 2 oz butter or margarine
200g or 8 oz SR flour (or plain flour with 2.5 level tsp (12.5ml) baking powder)
5ml or 1 tsp bicarb soda
10ml or 2 tsp milk
pinch salt, few drops vanilla essence
1 large egg.
1. EITHER put all ingredients in food processor OR cream sugar and butter/marg; beat egg, milk and vanilla essence and add to marg and sugar; sieve flour, bicarb and salt, mash bananas and mix all together.
2. Put in greased loaf tin and bake 40 mins at 170C (=325F, Gas mark 3). Test when done with skewer: even if it's a bit sticky that's ok as banana bread should be quite moist. Also rap on top with a fingernail. Should feel resilient and sound hollow.
3. Leave in tin for 5 mins to cool, then put on wire cooling rack.
PS. Ok without butter. Wholemeal flour is ok. Any kind of sugar is ok.