Banana Ginger Parkin - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/3 cups plain flour
2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 3/4 cups medium oatmeal
4 tablespoons dark muscovado sugar
6 tablespoons sunflower margarine
2/3 cup golden syrup
1 egg, beaten
3 ripe bananas, mashed
3/4 cup icing sugar

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 160/325/Gas 3.Grease and line an 18 x 28cm cake tin (7 x 11\").
Sift together the flour,bicarb of soda and ginger,then stir in the oatmeal.Melt the sugar,margarine and syrup in a saucepan,then stir into the flour mixture.Beat in the egg and mashed bananas.
Spoon into the tin and bake for about 1 hour or until firm to the touch.Cool in the tin,turn out and cut into squares.
Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and stir in just enough water to make a smooth,runny icing.Drizzle the icing over each square.