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Welsh Fruit Bread (Bara Brith) III

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Bread, Baked

Tags: dessert, medium difficulty, recipes for cake, recipes using baking powder, recipes using baking soda, recipes using brown sugar, recipes using cherry, recipes using egg, recipes using whole-wheat flour, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings, welsh

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AWelsh_Fruit_Bread_%28Bara_Brith%29_III)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AWelsh%20Fruit%20Bread%20%28Bara%20Brith%29%20III&oldid=4516972

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 4 oz dried fruit
  • Brewed black tea
  • 12–14 oz brown or wholemeal flour
  • 3–4 oz brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon mixed spice
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 egg
  • Glacé cherries (optional), chopped

Directions

  1. Soak the fruit in tea for several hours. Strain, retain both fruit and tea.
  2. Mix the flour, sugar, spice, baking powder and bicarb.
  3. Add soaked fruit to the dry ingredients, then start to mix.
  4. Add the egg, and continue to mix.
  5. Add the black tea in small amounts, mixing as you go.
  6. Continue to add the tea until the mixture is thick but runny—it should cling to a spoon, but any excess should drop off easily. If you have used up all your tea, a drop of milk can be added instead to achieve this consistency.
  7. Add the chopped glace cherries, which will further increase the moisture of the batter.
  8. Pour into a greased baking tin, and bake at 190°C for approximately 90 minutes. Loosely cover the top with foil for the first hour, to avoid burning. Once cooked, turn out and cool.
  9. Serve sliced with butter and a cup of tea.