"Oolooloo" Banana Cake Recipe

The mystery "Oolooloo" Banana Cake - Where has the "Oolooloo" come from?

With 3 very ripe bananas, I was looking for a recipe to use them up.  I have recently been given a pack of my Granny's old recipe cards - all hand written and very well used!

I found this card for " Oolooloo" Banana Cake - intrigued by the title and the fact it had been so well used I thought it must be good!

 And it was gorgeous, an incredibly moist cake and simple to make.  

After a bit of google research the only reference to "Oolooloo" Banana Cake I can find seems to be from Good Housekeeping 1970, so the mystery goes on?!

If you fancy a banana cake and I highly recommend this one, here is the recipe:

4oz butter or margarine

5oz castor sugar

1 egg

3 ripe bananas mashed

7oz self raising flour

1/2 level teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

1 tablespoon milk

7oz icing sugar

2 teaspoons of lemon juice

Almonds to decorate.

1. Heat oven to 150 degrees C

2. Grease and line 9 inch sandwich tin

3. Cream sugar and fat together

4. Add egg beating well

5. Add mashed bananas

6. Fold in flour and milk

7. Bake for approx 1 hour

8. Cool in tin before turning out

9. Coat with glacé icing

10. Decorate with chopped or flaked almonds (optional)

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