Recipe: Tasty Healthy tea loaf!

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Recipe: Tasty Healthy tea loaf! Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Healthy tea loaf!. Mix the sultanas, raisins and orange zest in a large mixing bowl. Pour over the tea and cover the bowl. To make a moist fruit tea loaf.

This tea loaf recipe combines Rooibos tea bags, mixed dried fruit and sweet brown sugar together to make a delicious cake that is complete with a generous helping of butter - the perfect.

Steep the raisins in the hot tea for half an hour.

Add the raisin-tea mixture and the beaten egg.

You can have Healthy tea loaf! using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Healthy tea loaf!

  1. It’s 170 g of mixed dry fruit.

  2. It’s 10 of x glace cherries (chopped).

  3. You need 300 ml of Tea (cold).

  4. Prepare 250 g of self raising flour.

  5. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.

  6. It’s 100 g of granulated sugar.

  7. You need 2 of x medium eggs.

Gently combine using a rubber spatula, but don't overmix.

Scoop ingredients into an oiled loaf tin.

It might be old-fashioned, but tea loaf rocks!

It's perfect for serving for 'elevenses' or as a mid-afternoon 'pick me up' with a lovely cup of tea.

Healthy tea loaf! instructions

  1. Preheat oven 180c (fan) prepare a 2lb loaf tin.

  2. Place all fruit in a bowl and pour cold tea over, leave all to soak for 1 hour.

  3. Add flour,baking powder, sugar and eggs to the soaked ingredients…..

  4. Beat (hand mixer) until smooth and mixed (dont over mix).

  5. Pour into prepared tin and bake on middle shelf for 35-40min until skewer comes out clean.

  6. Allow to cool for 10 minutes, lasts for 5 days stored..

It also makes a tasty after-school or travel snack.

This Scottish Tea Bread, or fruit loaf, or even Bara Brith recipe is for a bread which one would have with a cup of tea.

However, this is even made using tea!

So put the kettle on and make an extra strong pot of tea!

TRADITIONAL BRITISH RECIPE: Bara brith, sometimes known as 'speckled bread' ( the literal meaning of the original Welsh-language name ), is a loaf cake enriched with dried fruit or made with self-raising flour.