Banana Bread

Ingredients:

• 125g (1/3 cup) butter or margarine (4 oz)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3 or 4 ripe bananas
• 2 large eggs
• 2/3 cup white or brown rice flour
• 2/3 cup potato flour
• 2/3 cup tapioca flour
• 30ml (2 Tbsp) extra tapioca flour
• 2 teaspoon Xanthan gum
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda dissolved in ¼ cup water
• 1/3 tsp salt
• ¾ cup buttermilk (or 1 tbsp lemon juice plus enough non-dairy milk to equal ¾ cup)
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 Tbsp each sesame seeds and linseeds (opt)
• ½ cup shelled walnuts (opt)

Method:

• Cream butter and sugar and vanilla
• Add mashed bananas and beat well.
• Add beaten eggs
• Sift flours, salt,  Xanthan gum and baking powder and add to mixture with dissolved      baking soda mixture
• Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients, and mix just until combined.
• Add seeds and mix well.
• Spoon batter into prepared loaf tin or 2 layer cake tins (8 in), or 1 round cake tin (9 in).
• Bake in Moderate oven(350 F, 180 C) for 1 hour to 1 ½ hours.