This recipe is from my favourite cookbook of all time, Mary Berry's Ultimate Cake Book, I have adapted it a bit as we cannot buy self-raising flour in Tokyo.
Ingredients 225grams flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 100grams cake margarine 225grams bananas (about 3 medium sized bananas) 100grams sugar grated rind of 1 lemon 2 large eggs 6 Tablespoons extra thick honey 2 teaspoons cinnamon
For the topping 2 Tablespoons thick honey sugar for sprinkling
Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees, prepare a 900gram loaf tin. Measure flour and nutmeg into a large bowl and rub in the margarine using fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Peel and mash the bananas and stir into the flour mixture with the sugar, lemon rind, eggs and honey. Beat well until evenly mixed, then turn into the prepared time and level the surface. Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 75 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cover the teabread loosely with foil during the end of the cooking time if it is browning too much. Allow to cool slightly in the tin, then turn out on to a wire rack and leave to cool completely. For the topping, gently warm the honey in a small pan, then brush over the top of the teabread, sprinkle with the sugar.