Irish Tea Loaf | Barmbrack
Irish Tea Loaf | Barmbrack

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Irish Tea Loaf

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook irish tea loaf | barmbrack using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Irish Tea Loaf | Barmbrack:
  1. Take Earl Grey, 2 Tea Bags
  2. Take 250 ml Boiling Water,
  3. Take 50 ml Irish Whiskey,
  4. Take 375 g High Quality Dried Fruit Mix,
  5. Get Unsalted Butter, For Greasing
  6. Prepare 225 g Unbleached All Purpose Flour,
  7. Get 2 TSP Baking Powder,
  8. Make ready 60 g Light Muscovado Sugar,
  9. Get 60 g Molasses Sugar,
  10. Take 1/2 TSP All Spice Powder,
  11. Get 1 Egg,

This recipe improves on the original video version, which my Irish friends on YouTube said needed baking soda. This traditional Irish sweet bread is known as barmbrack, or bairin breac in Gaelic, or speckled loaf, since it is run through with raisins This is a perfect bread for breakfast or tea, spread with good butter, toasted or not The recipe has been adapted slightly from one by the well-known Irish cookbook author Rachel Allen; her original calls for chopped candied peel instead of citrus zest. Traditionally, barmbrack is round, but a loaf tin makes life a lot easier. If this is a celebratory brack, painting it with sugar syrup, as Allen and Duff suggest, will give it a lovely.

Instructions to make Irish Tea Loaf | Barmbrack:
  1. Brew earl grey with boiling water in a large bowl. - - Cover and steep the tea bags until tea is slightly cooled. - - Remove the tea bags. - - Do not be tempted to squeeze the tea bags to extract more tea. It will leave a bitter note.
  2. Add in whiskey and stir to combine well. - - Add in the dried fruits mix. - - Stir the mixture to combine well making sure all the fruits are fully submerged.
  3. Cover and let it sit on the counter at room temperature overnight. - - The next day, preheat oven to 170 degree celsius or 340 fahrenheit. - - Grease loaf pan with butter.
  4. Line parchment paper with the sides overhanging. It will be easy to unmold. - - Set aside. - - Strain the fruits mixture thru a fine strainer over a bowl. - - Do not discard the liquid. It will be used at a later stage.
  5. Strain the fruits mixture thru a fine strainer over a bowl. - - Do not discard the liquid. It will be used at a later stage. - - Set aside. - - In a large bowl, add flour, baking powder, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves.
  6. Set aside. - - In a large bowl, add flour, baking powder, sugar and all spice. - - Stir to combine well. - - Create a well in the center. - - Add in egg. - - Add in the mixed fruits.
  7. Add in the fruits liquid 1 TBSP at a time, at the same time mixing. - - Keep adding and mixing until it is very annoying to mix anymore. - - You should have a wet and sticky dough, but not runny. - - Discard any leftover liquid.
  8. Mix to combine well. - - Transfer into the prepared loaf pan. - - Wack into the oven and bake for 1 hr, or until the top turns dark brown and pass the skewer test. - - Remove from oven and set aside until completely cooled.
  9. Unmold and transfer onto a large cling film. - - Wrap the cake and set aside for 24 to 48 hrs before slicing and serving. - - It tastes better the next day. - - Serve with butter and a cup of tea on the side.

Traditionally, barmbrack is round, but a loaf tin makes life a lot easier. If this is a celebratory brack, painting it with sugar syrup, as Allen and Duff suggest, will give it a lovely. The Barmbrack in a sense was a taster, a treat at this time of year with the promise of Christmas. Not as rich as a Christmas cake, and more like a bread, with a scattering of dried fruit and spice when available, it was generally spread with butter to be eaten. Cinnamon raisin bread fans, get ready for the ultimate version of it!.

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