Chris's favourite cake for a Sunday afternoon with a cup of tea!
We don’t do a lot of baking on our channel but I just had to share my recipe for a moist and fruity tea bread, it's one of Chris's absolute favourite cakes and is perfect for a Sunday afternoon with a cup of tea!
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Ingredients:
150 g (3/4 cup) sultanas
150 g (3/4 cup) raisins
300 ml (just over 10 fl oz) hot tea
250 g (2 cups + 1 tbsp) plain (all-purpose) flour
2 tsp baking powder
200 g (1 cup + 2 tbsp) soft light brown sugar
1 tsp mixed spice
2 tbsp melted butter
2 medium eggs
Instructions
1. Place the sultanas and raisins in a bowl and pour over the hot tea. Cover and allow to soak up the liquid overnight.
2. Preheat the oven to 170°C/325°F and line a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment or a tin liner.
3. Combine the flour, baking powder, sugar and mixed spice in a mixing bowl. Give it a stir, then mix in the butter and eggs - using a wooden spoon or spatula.
4. Add in the raisins, sultanas and any liquid left in the bowl. Stir together until everything is thoroughly combined. It will be a very wet dough.
5. Spoon the wet dough into the lined loaf tin, place in the oven and bake for 1 hour - to 1 hour 15 minutes. You'll know it's done when an inserted skewer comes out clean. If you find that the top of the tea bread is starting to look too dark whilst it's in the oven, you can cover it will foil.
6. Once cooked, remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes.
7. Then remove from the tin and allow to cool completely on a wire rack before slicing and serving.
Notes
This cake should keep for a week or more wrapped in baking parchment and placed in a sealed container at room temperature (in fact, the cake tastes even better after a day or two).
Mixed Spice is typically a British blend of spices normally consisting of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and all spice although other spices can be present depending on the brand. If you’re in the US then it is similar to pumpkin pie spice mix.
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TRADITIONAL IRISH BARMBRACK RECIPE| IRISH TEA BREAD| BÁIRÍN BREAC
#Báirínbreac also known as #barmbrack or #IrishTeaBread is a beautiful fruit loaf packed full of Irish history and tradition. It is a quick loaf to whip together loaded with dried sultanas and raisins and it is typically made at Halloween time. The name means 'speckled loaf' as Gaeilge (in Irish) and you can see why from the amazing speckling of the fruit throughout the loaf. Happy Autumn baking!
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Ingredients List
300g self raising flour
5g baking powder
5g salt
5g mixed spice
150g light brown sugar
1 large free range egg
250g sultanas
250g raisins
300mls strong tea (to soak fruit the night before)
100 mls strong tea (to make up the batter)
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HOW TO MAKE BARA BRITH AT HOME|WELSH CAKE LOAF|EASY TO MAKE | #RECIPE
Ingredients
450g dried mixed fruit
250gbrown sugar
350ml pint warm black tea
2 tsp mixed spice
2tsp cinnamon powder
450g self-raising flour
1 egg, beaten
Method
In a large bowl soak the fruit and sugar in strained tea and leave overnight. preheat the oven to 170C/325F/.
Mix the remaining ingredients into the fruit mixture and beat well.
Pour the mixture into the loaf tin and bake the oven and bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
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This recipe is a recommendation from a viewer and is hands down in my top 5 of the recipes I've made on this channel so far that have been so amazing they now have a permanent spot in my personal cookbook. My goodness, the Welsh seem to have some of the most wonderful recipes (well, out of the 4 I've tried thus far).
But seriously, try this out. Not only is it good, it is made even better by the fact that it was a recipe from the 40's that used ration items like powdered egg and carrots in lieu of dried fruit. I would have been A-OK with being served this as a wartime birthday cake.
Here is the recipe - please do try it. You wont be sorry!
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