2013 Cooking Club Week 7: Irish Tea Brack

This is pretty straightforward recipe, though it requires overnight soakage.

Ingredients

200ml strong tea*
175g brown sugar
450g mixed, dried fruit - sultanas/raisins, etc
1 egg, lightly beaten
250g plain flour
Half a level teaspoon of bread soda
Oven temperature 180C

*You can also use 200ml of whiskey if you're so inclined, or throw in a small dash in with the tea.

Method

1. Put the tea, sugar and dried fruit in a bowl, cover and leave to soak overnight.



2. The next day, grease a loaf tin (2lb).

3. Move the fruit mixture/liquid around a bit. If you happen to taste some of it at this point I won't hold that against you. :pac:
Next, add the lightly beaten egg to the fruit mixture.

4. Sieve the flour and bread soda together and fold into the mixture.





5. Turn into the prepared tin and bake for 1 hour, it may need more or less (maybe 90 minutes). If you're cautious, do 45 minutes and check. Temperature - 180C or gas mark 4.



6. Cool on a wire tray, bring on the butter and eat!