Super-charged banana loaf

I made up this recipe when my young son refused to eat a wide range of foods, so this banana loaf is loaded with eggs and other hopefully healthy goodies. The recipe makes three small loaves.

300 ml sugar
180 g butter or margarine (Flora or the like)
6 jumbo eggs
7 to 9 ripe bananas, mashed
4 cups self-raising flour
salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 cup sultanas, rinsed in warm water and drained
1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts are good)

Cream the sugar and butter and beat in the eggs until well blended. Stir in bananas, nuts, sultanas. Mix flour, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon and then slowly add to the wet mixture, stirring all the time until the dry ingredients are absorbed.

Bake in three small greased and lined loaf tins, at 180 deg C for 50 minutes. Cool on a rack for a few minutes before turning out of the tins.

Mealie Bread

500 g flour
5 ml salt
30 ml baking powder
pinch of cream of tartar
45 ml sugar
30 ml melted butter
2 eggs
200-250 ml milk
1 can cream-style mealies (corn)
a dash of nutmeg

Combine dry ingredients. Beat together butter, eggs and milk, then add to the dry ingredients. Mix in mealies (corn) and nutmeg. Turn into a greased loaf pan and bake at 180 deg C for about 55 minutes. Turn out and cool on wire rack.

Optional: add 100 g grated cheddar cheese to the mixture and toss in 15 ml each of chopped fresh parsley and chives.

Serve hot with your barbecued meat and a fresh garden salad. Enjoy!