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Spiced Fruit Tea Loaf

  • Ready in:
  • 1 hr to soak the fruit then 1 hr to prepare and bake
  • Serves:
  • 6 - 8
  • Complexity:
  • easy

Ingredients:

  • 300g mixed dried fruit
  • 300ml freshly brewed tea
  • 250g self raising flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 150g soft light brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon mixed spice
  • 2 eggs
  • Method

    Place the dried fruit in a bowl and pour over the hot tea. Leave to cool.

    Preheat the oven to 160C Fan/ Gas mark 4. Line a 2lb (900g) loaf tin with baking parchment.

    Weigh out the flour, baking powder, spice and sugar into a mixing bowl.

    Make a well in the middle and slowly beat in the cooled and soaked dried fruit mix with the tea, using a wooden spoon and carefully beating out any lumps of flour.

    Whisk the eggs with a fork and then beat these into the batter.

    Pour into the prepared tin and bake in the oven for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out cleanly.

    Cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

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