Strawberry Tea Cake

This recipe is as sweet as it sounds...

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil.
• 225 g self raising flour.
• 1 pinch salt.
• 125 g caster sugar.
• 50 g polyunsaturated margarine.
• 2 medium egg(s).
• 125 ml skimmed milk.
• 1 tsp vanilla extract.
• 100 g strawberries.

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 160°C / 325°F / Gas Mark 3. Grease a 750 g (1 lb 10 oz) loaf tin with the oil and line it with greaseproof paper or non-stick baking parchment.
2. Sift flour and salt into a mixing bowl and stir in the sugar. Rub in the margarine until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.
3. Beat together the eggs, milk and vanilla extract. Add to the rubbed-in mixture and stir well. Mix in the strawberries. Transfer to the prepared tin and level the surface.
4. Bake for about 1 hour 10 minutes, or until a fine skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then remove and cool completely on a wire rack.

Submitted By: Valerie McGowan.