Healthy tea loaf!. Mix the sultanas, raisins and orange zest in a large mixing bowl. Pour over the tea and cover the bowl. To make a moist fruit tea loaf.
This tea loaf recipe combines Rooibos tea bags, mixed dried fruit and sweet brown sugar together to make a delicious cake that is complete with a generous helping of butter - the perfect. Steep the raisins in the hot tea for half an hour. Add the raisin-tea mixture and the beaten egg. You can have Healthy tea loaf! using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Healthy tea loaf!
- Prepare 170 g of mixed dry fruit.
- You need 10 of x glace cherries (chopped).
- It's 300 ml of Tea (cold).
- You need 250 g of self raising flour.
- Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 100 g of granulated sugar.
- You need 2 of x medium eggs.
Gently combine using a rubber spatula, but don't overmix. Scoop ingredients into an oiled loaf tin. It might be old-fashioned, but tea loaf rocks! It's perfect for serving for 'elevenses' or as a mid-afternoon 'pick me up' with a lovely cup of tea.
Healthy tea loaf! instructions
- Preheat oven 180c (fan) prepare a 2lb loaf tin.
- Place all fruit in a bowl and pour cold tea over, leave all to soak for 1 hour.
- Add flour,baking powder, sugar and eggs to the soaked ingredients.....
- Beat (hand mixer) until smooth and mixed (dont over mix).
- Pour into prepared tin and bake on middle shelf for 35-40min until skewer comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for 10 minutes, lasts for 5 days stored..
It also makes a tasty after-school or travel snack. This Scottish Tea Bread, or fruit loaf, or even Bara Brith recipe is for a bread which one would have with a cup of tea. However, this is even made using tea! So put the kettle on and make an extra strong pot of tea! TRADITIONAL BRITISH RECIPE: Bara brith, sometimes known as 'speckled bread' ( the literal meaning of the original Welsh-language name ), is a loaf cake enriched with dried fruit or made with self-raising flour.