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Home Recipes Baking And Sweets Axel's Fruit Tea Bread Recipe

Axel's Fruit Tea Bread Recipe

The key to any tea bread is the tea– the better the tea, the more interesting the tea, the better and...

Axel's Fruit Tea Bread Recipe

Ingredients

175g/ 6 oz / 1 cup sultanas
125g / 4½ oz / ¾ cup raisins
50g / 2oz / ¼ cup currants
175g / 6oz / 3/4 cup light brown muscovado sugar
250ml / 8 fl oz / 1 cup strong freshly brewed tea
1 egg free-range, at room temperature and lightly beaten
50 ml / 3½ tbsp buttermilk
230g / 8 oz / 1 cups plain white flour
1½ tsp baking powder
1/2 teaspoon Steenbergs organic Fairtrade cinnamon powder
1/2 teaspoon organic nutmeg powder

The key to any tea bread is the tea– the better the tea, the more interesting the tea, the better and more interesting the end result. I have now made it with breakfast tea, Assam tea, Christmas chai teaand Redbush Chai tea and they all come out with slightly different flavours, but they are all great. The tea should always be made with loose leaf tea as you lose that fustiness from the tea bag, plus why use good ingredients then spoil their subtleties with the imperfection of the flavour from a bag. The other addition that I have made is I have substituted buttermilk for the butter, which adds a different richness to the cake that was not completely right beforehand, however you can either substitute this for a full fat milk or omit this ingredient but then add extra tea to compensate, otherwise the teabread loses some of its moistness, which is part of the joy and vital to the texture.

The other part that I have played with is to work on variations of the steeping of the fruits. Firstly, I think it is better to boil the fruit for 10 – 15 minutes, then to leave the fruit to cool and steep in the brewed tea ideally overnight, but certainly until the fruit has cooled to a warm to the touch temperature. The alternative of steeping in freshly brewed tea did not seem as successful, although fine; perhaps the initial boiling softens up and gets the fruit more receptive to taking up the flavours of the tea.

Finally, I have upped the quantities, the better to fit my loaf tin. The end result is moist, rich and moreish, tasting great with butter.

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180C/ 350F. Line a loaf tin with baking paper.
  2. Place the dried fruit and muscovado sugarinto a heavy bottomed saucepan, then add the strong tea*, heat and simmer for 10 – 15 minutes until the fruit has plumped up. Leave to cool in the pan, ideally overnight.
  3. Sieve together the plain flour, baking powder, Fairtrade cinnamon and nutmeg powders. Make a well in the centre of the flour, then add in the egg and stir thoroughly with a spatula. Add the buttermilk and stir until you have a soft dough. Add the fruits and throughly beat together with the silicone spatula.
  4. Stirring Up The Fruit Bread Mix
  5. Pourthe fruitteabread mixtureinto the prepared loaf tin. Bake for 1hour 10 minutes, remove from the oven then leave to stand in the tin for about 10 minutes, before turning out and leaving to cool on wire rack. Start checking the consistency of the teabread towards the end – when it is springy to a light touch on the surface of the teabread, it is done.
  6. Yorkshire Teabread
  7. You do not need to leave this to cool down completely as it is lovely eaten warm.

* see above for suggestions for tea to use

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