Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf
Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, fragrant spiced tea loaf. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf This is a seriously epic fruity loaf. Born out of my love of malt loaf, but my inability to ever find malt extract (it's lockdown right now, so it's tough!). In order to compensate for the lack of malty goodness from this loaf, I decided to bring back my old pals Cardamom and Mixed spice, to give this loaf an even.

Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have fragrant spiced tea loaf using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf:
  1. Prepare 220 g luxury dried mixed fruit
  2. Make ready 40 g butter
  3. Prepare 145 ml water
  4. Make ready 175 g self raising flour
  5. Prepare 1/4 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
  6. Get 5 cardamom pods, de-seeded and crushed
  7. Get 1 tsp Mixed Spice
  8. Get 1 pinch salt
  9. Make ready 1 egg
  10. Get 110 g dark muscavado sugar
  11. Prepare Half a cooking apple, cored and sliced

Serve with a pat of butter, and never go back to your regular loaf recipes! In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Whisk together the eggs, milk, and olive oil, and then add them to the flour mix, just stirring until combined. A spice loaf recipe from an ordinary woman and plain cook, my Grandma, who was very, very special.

Instructions to make Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf:
  1. Preheat the oven to 160C fan. Grease and line with parchment paper a 1lb loaf tin.
  2. Put the mixed dried fruit, butter and water into a pan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5-10 minutes.Remove from the heat and set aside to cool a little.
  3. Cream together the egg and sugar for 10 minutes until paler in colour using a beater. Add the cardamom and mixed spice
  4. Sift the flour, bicarb of soda and salt into a separate bowl.
  5. Add half of the flour mixture into the egg/sugar mixture and mix gently, followed by half of the warm fruit mixture. Add the remaining half of the flour mixture followed by the remaining half of the fruit mixture until all incorporated. Mix gently as you go.
  6. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf tin. Pop the apple slices on top and push down into the batter slightly so they are nestled nicely. Bake for 35-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Leave in the tin for 20 minutes, then turn out not a wire rack to cool.

Food, like smells, are very evocative of time and place. My Grandmother used to create a tea that usually included several cakes and a fruity spice loaf would often be included. My Grandma was what might be termed 'a plain cook'. A dark and moist pumpkin loaf sweetened with dates, fragrant with pumpkin pie spices and topped with pecans. I'm the first to admit that I may have my seasons mucked up with this recipe.

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