Welsh fruited tea bread recipe

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Looking for tea bread recipes, teabread recipes, bara brith recipes, cake recipes or fruit cake recipes? This easy version on Bara brith (traditional Welsh tea bread) will be easier to slice if left for a day. Wrapped in foil, it keeps for up to a week.

Makes10
SkillEasy
Preparation Time20 mins
Cooking Time1 hours 10 mins
Total Time1 hours 30 mins plus 30 mins cooling
Cost RangeCheap
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This easy version on Bara brith (traditional Welsh tea bread) will be easier to slice if left for a day. Wrapped in foil it will keep for up to one week.

Ingredients

  • 300g (10oz) mixed dried fruit
  • 150g (5oz) light muscovado sugar
  • 150g (5oz) butter
  • 200ml (7fl oz) cold strong tea
  • 50ml (2fl oz) fresh orange juice
  • 275g (10oz) self-raising flour
  • 2tsp mixed spice

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Method

  1. Place the dried fruit, sugar, butter, tea and orange juice in a large pan and heat gently until the butter has melted and the sugar dissolved. Leave to cool for 30 mins.
  2. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F, gas mark 4). Grease and line the base and sides of a 900g (2lb) loaf tin with greaseproof paper.
  3. Sift the flour, mixed spice and a pinch of salt over the fruit mixture and mix thoroughly. Spoon into the lined tin.
  4. Bake for 1hr 5mins - 1hr 10mins until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin. Serve sliced and buttered.
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