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Spiced Apricot Loaf
Recipe by:
Lindsay Perejma
This is a lovely, moist tea time bread made with wholemeal flour, ground ginger, coriander and cinnamon. It works with orange or apricot juice too.
Ready in 1 hour 10 mins
Saved by 26 cook(s)
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 60g (2 oz) chopped dried apricots
- 110ml (4 fl oz) pineapple juice
- 170g (6 oz) wholemeal flour
- 100g (3 oz) plain flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 3 tablespoons dark brown muscavado sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons rapeseed or vegetable oil
- 180ml (6 fl oz) buttermilk
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Preparation method
Prep: 20 mins | Cook: 50 mins1.
Place apricots and pineapple juice in a small saucepan. Warm over medium heat until bubbling. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
2.
Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4. Lightly grease a 23x12 cm (9x5 in) loaf tin.
3.
In a large bowl, mix together wholemeal flour, plain flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, sugar, ginger, coriander and cinnamon.
4.
In a separate bowl, beat together egg, vegetable oil and buttermilk; combine with cooled apricot mixture. Gradually stir buttermilk and apricot mixture into flour mixture until blended.
5.
Pour batter into prepared tin. Bake in preheated oven for 50 minutes or until a cocktail stick inserted into centre of the loaf comes out clean.
6.
Let cool 5 minutes then loosen sides of loaf with a blunt knife. Remove from pan and allow to cool completely on a wire rack before slicing.
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Last updated:
23 Apr 2013
Reviews & comments
Easy
This was not the moist delicious loaf it was touted as. In fact it was so dry we had to eat it with loads of butter spread on top. Very disappointing.
Posted:
27 Jan 2011
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