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Barm Brack
Recipe by:
Ruth
This delicious Irish fruit cake is best served thickly sliced with butter.
Ready in 1 hour 55 mins
Saved by 72 cook(s)
Ingredients
Serves: 10
- 425ml (15 fl oz) brewed ordinary tea, cooled
- 225g (8 oz) light brown soft sugar
- 175g (6 oz) sultanas
- 50g (2 oz) chopped candied citron
- 150g (5 oz) self-raising flour
- 1 egg, beaten
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Preparation method
Prep: 10 mins | Cook: 1 hour 45 mins1.
Put the tea, sugar, sultanas and citron into a bowl. Cover and leave to soak overnight.
2.
Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4. Grease and flour an 20cm round cake tin.
3.
Sift the flour into the fruit mixture. Add the egg and beat well.
4.
Pour into the cake tin and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour and 45 minutes or until skewer inserted into centre of cake comes out clean. Leave in the tin for 5 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
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Last updated:
02 May 2013
Reviews & comments
Easy
Recipe is great- I did make changes and look up equivalents first. The 8oz sugar = just under a cup (I used 2/3) and the 5 oz flour= one cup in US measure. Batter nice and thick. I cooked it at 325f for one hour and it was perfect.
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02 Dec 2012
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Easy
I thought it was possibly an error in converting from metric to English until I saw the other reviews. Even with extra flour, my batter was runny, but I had hoped to try it anyway. Smelled good, esp. since I used Mandarin Orange Spice tea. I almost burnt the top, but the insides were still runny. Lots of time and money wasted on this recipe. (Golden Raisins instead of sultanas and citron are not cheap)
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25 Mar 2012
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Easy
Sorry - didn't work for me at all. The mixture was far too runny, even after adding extra flour. After almost 2 hours all the fruit was at the bottom, it was very soggy underneath & solid on the top. Just doesn't work I'm afraid.
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06 Mar 2011
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Easy
Mixture very runny. Cake not baked in the middle ,even after extra time.Suspect that the ingredients proportions need to be amended.However very easy to make.
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20 Feb 2010
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Easy
Sorry, I have to agree with "Loves to cook" this is hideous.
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31 Oct 2009
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Used different ingredients.
I added orange peel & dried fruit in place of the citron.
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18 Jul 2008
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jdorrance
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I really enjoy this in the mornings.
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18 Jul 2008
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WILLIAMS01
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I am sorry, but I thought this recipe was horrid.
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18 Jul 2008
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Loves to cook
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very nice and easy
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18 Jul 2008
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CARROLYN
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Yum yum yum yum yum yum! Made me feel really homesick, and went straight online and bought a couple of plane tickets to Ireland. That's the effect it had on me, so you can guess I liked it.
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18 Jul 2008
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