Cold Tea Fruit Loaf Recipe - Delicious and Healthy

16 May 2009 - posted by Anonymous

Stir Earl Grey Supreme Tea Loaf

This recipe uses cold tea and is a perfect way to use up any surplus tea you may have brewed.  Fruit is soaked in the cold tea overnight (we have also made it when the fruit has been soaked for less time and still got a great result) and provides the basis for an extremely moist loaf.  This is perfect for lunches, to enjoy with a cup of tea from the Stir range or is a great addition to a cheese board.  For the recipe we have used brewed Earl Grey Supreme tea from the Stir Tea Range – Black Tea Favourites.

Ingredients:

1 ½ cups of mixed dried fruit

1 cup of currants

1 cup of cold, strongly brewed, Stir Earl Grey Supreme

1 tablespoon treacle

1 egg, lightly beaten

½ cup of sugar

2 cups of wholemeal flour (or any combination of white flour, bran to make up two cups)

4 teaspoons of baking powder

1 teaspoon of mixed spice

Place dried fruit in a large bowl, pour over cold tea and stir in treacle. Cover and allow to soak overnight. Stir beaten egg into fruit mixture followed by sugar and then the sifted flour, baking powder and spice.

Spoon into a greased or lined loaf tin and bake at 160 degrees Celsius for 1 – 1 ¼ hours or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.  Enjoy!

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