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- Cuisine English
- Tea Loaf , Children, Kids Fun Cooking, Vegetarian, Family Food, Kids Fun Cooking
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" I love baking and Mum's fruit tea loaf instantly reminds me of home it's almost like a safety blanket, I always feel better for it. "
Tea Loaf
Added on Mon Jul 14 2008
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The Basics
- Dish: Baking
- cuisine: English
- Serves: 16
- Prep Time: 12hrs 0 mins
- Cooking Time: 1hrs 30 mins
Ingredients
- 8oz Granulated sugar
- 8oz Plain flour
- 8oz Wholemeal flour
- 1lb *Mixed dried fruit
- 1 Egg
- 2tbs Thick-cut marmalade or malt extract
- 4tsp Baking powder
- ½ pint Warm/cold tea
Method
* When choosing the mixed dried fruit, you can use any sort of mixed fruit, chopped dried apricots, cherries, blueberries can be used but they make it a lot sweeter so if used reduce the amount of sugar by an ounce or two
Instructions
1. Overnight soak 8oz granulated sugar and 1lb mixed dried fruit in ½ pint warm/cold tea
2. Preheat oven to 325°, 170°C (adjust if you have a fan oven)
3. Grease 2 x 1lb loaf tins
4. Stir 1 egg and 2 tbsps thick-cut marmalade into fruit mixture
5. Sift together 8oz plain flour, 8oz wholemeal flour and 4 tsps baking powder. Add to the mixture and add a little milk if too dry to stir
6. Divide mixture between tins and level tops
7. Bake in centre of oven for 1‚½ hours until well risen and cooked through. If the tops are browning too quickly cover the loafs with foil
8. Leave the loaves in the tins to cool for 10 minutes. Turn out onto wire rack and leave to cool. Serve sliced and buttered.
Loaves will improve in flavour if stored for up to 4 weeks in tin
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The Story Behind The Recipe
I think it’s well known that I’m a girl who likes her food and probably one of the main reasons is that my Mum is an excellent cook!
Whilst growing up everyday after school my brother and I would sit down with Mum and have home made cake and a cup of tea. Very civilised and very northern! We were always encouraged to talk about we’d done that day and I always looked forward to that time of the day – maybe that’s where my love of talking started. I realise that I’m very lucky to have a Mum who made the effort to do that and not just shove us in front of the TV.
I love baking and Mum’s fruit tea loaf instantly reminds me of home – it’s almost like a safety blanket, I always feel better for it.
Posted By Daisy on Tue Jul 15 2008
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