step 1
Preheat oven to 170C/fan 150C
step 2
Grease and line a loaf tin with baking paper.
step 3
Cream butter and sugar together until pale and creamy. Beat in the eggs, then fold in all the dry ingredients followed by the milk.
step 4
Place into the loaf tin and bake in the centre of the oven for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
step 5
Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes then carefully tip out onto a wire rack to cool completely.