About the bake
This traditional Irish Tea Brack Loaf is filled with fruit and makes a great tea time treat. We're convinced it makes a great lunchbox treat too, not just one for St. Patrick's Day. The fruit requires soaking over night in tea.
Method
Step 1:
Put the dried mixed fruit and cherries into a large bowl and pour over the hot tea and leave overnight.
Step 2:
The next day, preheat the oven to 180C (fan 160C, gas mark 4) and line a 900g loaf tin with baking paper. Ready made liners for loaf tins are available in larger supermarkets.
Step 3:
Add the remaining ingredients to the soaked fruit and tea and stir well.
Step 4:
Pour into the loaf tin and bake for 1 1/2 hours or until a skewer comes out clean when pushed into the middle. After an hour just check as you might want to cover with foil if browning too much.
Step 5:
Leave to cool in the tin and then serve sliced with butter.
Ingredients
- 300g Dried mixed fruits
- 100g Glacé cherries
- 300ml Tea (hot, strong)
- 125g Billington's Unrefined Light Muscovado Sugar
- 125g Billington's Unrefined Dark Muscovado Sugar
- 1 Egg(s) (free range) (large, beaten)
- 275g Self-raising white flour
- 1 tsp Mixed spice
- Butter (salted) (to serve)
Utensils
- Large mixing bowl
- Baking paper
- Loaf tin
- Skewer
- Tin foil
Recipe Reviews
Mine goes sticky on top. It keep in an airtight tin
The best tea brack recipe! I reduce the sugar by half as I find it too sweet with all the fruit.
Ingredients
- 300g Dried mixed fruits
- 100g Glacé cherries
- 300ml Tea (hot, strong)
- 125g Billington's Unrefined Light Muscovado Sugar
- 125g Billington's Unrefined Dark Muscovado Sugar
- 1 Egg(s) (free range) (large, beaten)
- 275g Self-raising white flour
- 1 tsp Mixed spice
- Butter (salted) (to serve)
Utensils
- Large mixing bowl
- Baking paper
- Loaf tin
- Skewer
- Tin foil