How To make Barm Brack (Traditional Irish Bread)

Barmbrack - Irish Sweet Bread

Traditional Barmbrack - Irish Sweet Bread is usually made for Halloween.
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This is a moist and delicious sweet bread with raisins and sultanas. Make this easy no yeast bread with simple ingredients!


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Irish Barmbrack tea cake is a traditional Halloween treat in Ireland. Dried fruit & spices make it extra delicious! Try my yeast-free recipe!

Barmbrack (bairín breac in Irish) or Barnbrack can be found in every single shop in Ireland around Halloween. While you can make it at home into any shape you like, Irish barmbrack is usually sold in flattened rounds. This great sweet treat is widely enjoyed toasted and topped with butter. Oh, and don’t forget a cup of tea!
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Traditional Irish Barm Brack

This delicious cake is made for a Halloween celebration. The ancient Celtic celebration of Samhain is the origin of Halloween and takes on importance in Irish traditions. The custom of hiding an object within the cake adds a fun dimension to this great tasting treat.

Traditional Irish Barm Brack
(Makes 20 servings)

Ingredients

1 lbs raisins
1 lb sultanas (or golden raisins)
1 cup brown sugar
Zest of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup of hot strong Irish tea (Irish breakfast tea is best)
1 cup Irish whiskey (can substitute another cup of Irish tea instead)
4 eggs lightly beaten
3½ cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
½ teaspoon ground allspice


Directions

Place fruit, sugar, lemon zest and juice, tea and whiskey into a large mixing bowl. Mix well, cover and allow to stand overnight at room temperature.

Preheat oven to 325°

Grease a 9 or 10 inch round springform pan with butter, or line the base and sides of a cake tin with parchment paper and grease the paper.

Pour beaten eggs and spices onto the marinated fruits and mix thoroughly.

Sift together flour and baking powder onto the fruit mixture and stir until dry ingredients are incorporated well.

Spoon into the prepared pan and smooth down the surface.

If you wish you may insert a ring wrapped in parchment paper into the batter at this point.

Bake at 325° for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool before removing the springform pan.

Serve with lots of good Irish butter and hot strong Irish tea. The barm brack is also great toasted. The tradition says, that the person who finds the ring will be married within a year.

Objects that can be placed in the Barm Brack and their meaning:
Ring: Good News! You will be married within the year.
Coin: Congratulations! You will have good fortune in the coming year
Pea: You will not marry for a year
Piece of cloth: You will have bad luck this year
Matchstick: For the next 12 months your love life will be filled with strife


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Irish Tea Bread/Traditional Irish barmbrack

Traditional Irish tea bread/ Irish Barmbrack
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Hi guys welcome to Marks Irish Kitchen where i make family friendly recipes that everyone can enjoy. Todays video is for a traditional Irish tea bread also know as tea brack. Brack our traditional tea bread has been a festive dish since ancient times. It was usually eaten at “Lughnasa” the first day of autumn and “Samhain” the first day of winter. This traditional homemade bread comes in two versions the traditional Barm Brack or this version the Tea Brack. The difference between them is that a traditional Barm Brack uses yeast to help it rise whereas this version uses baking powder. As you can guess this is great with a nice cup of tea either on its own or buttered. The traditional irish name for the brack is “bairgain breac” bread that is speckled.

INGREDIENTS
500g mixed fruit (raisins, currants, sultanas and cranberries)
75g chopped glace cherries
225g brown sugar
500mls strong hot black tea
350g plain white flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp mixed spice
2 medium sized eggs (beaten)
A little honey for glaze
2x8in bread tins, lined or greased with butter

METHOD
Place the fruit, cherries and sugar in a bowl and pour the hot tea over them. Stir well until the sugar is dissolved, cover and leave to stand overnight.
Sift the flour, baking powder and spice and add a little egg and mix. Then add some fruit, mixing alternately until all the fruit and eggs are combined.
Turn the mixture into two lined loaf tins and bake at 160c/325f/gas 3 for about 1.5 hours. About 10 minutes before the brack is read, brush the top with some runny honey. Return to the oven until fully cooked.




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