I am keen on fruitcake in any permutation so once I chanced on this recipe I knew I wanted to provide it a bash. You stir every little thing collectively simply by hand and should you like butter in your fruit bread, that is the proper vessel by which to get pleasure from it.
The recipe can be slightly thriller as a result of the one I made was barely tailored from one I noticed on the Scrumptious journal web site and was by Paul Hollywood. It one way or the other mysteriously disappeared from the hyperlink I saved and after a lot of searches, it’s gone. I then discovered this model by Mary Berry and it’s kind of the identical recipe I made.
His recipe had used black tea and fewer of it, and I recall straining off the liquid, however I appreciated Early Gray tea which provides it that good bergamot citrus flavour.
I used a mixture of no matter dried fruit I had mendacity round. There have been raisins, currents and sultanas, even maybe a couple of cranberries. I don’t suppose it issues an excessive amount of. It’s scrumptious served with a great deal of butter and naturally a cup of tea.
- 350 g raisins currents & sultanas
- 300 ml strongly brewed scorching Earl Gray tea
- 275 g self-raising flour
- 225 g mild or darkish muscovado sugar or use any brown sugar
- 1 massive free-range egg overwhelmed
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Place all of the fruit in a bowl and canopy it with scorching tea. Depart to soak in a single day.
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Preheat the oven to 150C/130C Fan and line a 900g/2lb loaf tin with non-stick baking paper.
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Add the flour, sugar and egg to the bowl of soaked fruit (if there’s a little extra liquid that is positive) and blend completely.
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Spoon the combination into the ready tin and clean out the highest.
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Bake for 1¾ hours, or till the cake is risen and is simply agency to the contact, however examine it after 1¼ hours to see how it’s doing. Loosely cowl with a bit of tin foil from about midway by to stop over-browning if crucial. Depart to chill within the tin for about 10 minutes.
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End up the loaf and take away the paper.
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Serve thick slices with a beneficiant unfold of butter.
Servings: 1 loaf
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