Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, tea fruit loaf. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Add the eggs, flour and sugar to the soaked fruit, ensuring everything is well combined. This simple cake is known by a variety of names: Fruit Cake, Fruit Bread or Tea Loaf. I was first introduced to the simple joys of this easy fruitcake when I visited England for the first time as a teenager.
Tea Fruit Loaf is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Tea Fruit Loaf is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have tea fruit loaf using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Tea Fruit Loaf:
- Take 1 tea bag
- Get 300 ml boiling water
- Prepare 100 g dried mixed fruit
- Make ready 100 g raisins
- Make ready 75 g butter
- Take 100 g golden caster sugar
- Get 2 medium eggs, beaten
- Get 175 g SR flour
- Get Pinch salt
Sift over the flour, mixed spice and nutmeg, and stir until the mixture is well blended. The tea loaf gets its name from the fact the dried fruit in it is soaked in strong tea before the cake is made. Ideally you would soak the fruit overnight, but you can leave it until the tea goes cold, or for a couple of hours, if you're pressed for time. Tip the mixed fruit into a bowl with the sugar and gently pour over the tea.
Instructions to make Tea Fruit Loaf:
- Allow the tea bag to steep in the boiling water for 3 minutes. Remove the bag and add the dried fruit and allow to soak for at least 8 hours. Then drain fruit.
- Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and heat using a bain Marie until the butter melts. Stir round until the sugar is well mixed, and then add the fruit and mix again over a low heat for 3 minutes. Then allow to cool.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C and line 900g loaf time with grease proof paper.
- Mix the eggs and add to the fruit. Then add the flour and salt and mix again. Transfer to the loaf tin.
- Bake in the centre of the oven for 50 minutes. Test with a skewer.
Stir everything and leave to soak overnight. Tip the flour and spices into a bowl and beat in the mixed fruit and juices from the tea. Oil the inside of your loaf tin (or similar). Put the dried fruit in one of the bowls and pour over the warm tea. Save some tea in case you want to add some more later.
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