Moist tea loaf
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10 hours 10 min
This delightful tea loaf is moist, rustic and full of flavour, everything you want from a slice of cake around tea time.
JamieS
60 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 2 teabags
- 150ml boiling water
- 225g brown sugar
- 200g mixed dried fruit
- 3 tablespoons marmalade
- 3 tablespoons mixed peel
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 300g self raising flour
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:2hr ›
Extra time:8hr soaking ›
Ready in:10hr10min
- Steep the tea bags in the boiling water for 5 minutes. Combine the sugar and fruit in a bowl. Remove the bags and pour the tea over the fruit and sugar. Allow to soak overnight.
- The next day, preheat the oven to 150 C / Gas 2. Grease a 900g loaf tin and line with baking parchment. Drain the fruit.
- Transfer the fruit into a large mixing bowl then mix in the marmalade, mixed peel, egg and flour. Spoon into the prepared loaf tin and smooth the top.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 90 minutes to 2 hours, until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Remove from the oven and allow to cool fully before serving.
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Nice recipe, double the amount of tea bags though as not much tea flavour came through or use earl Grey - 31 Aug 2014