Blue peter tea bread
Recipe by Mark Marshall
2 cups of mixed dried fruit - Sultana's, Raisons and Glace cherries)
1 cup of hot black strong tea (I use Yorkshire Tea)
1 cup of soft brown sugar
2 cups of self-raising flour (or plain flour + 2 tsps baking powder)
1 large egg
Prep. Time → 15 min
Cook Time → 60 min
1. Firstly the cup used in this recipe is not an American cup - it is an English Tea Cup. The recipe was published on the BBC childrens programme Blue Peter way back in the late 70's early 80's and is a fantastic standby if guests drop in. ALso very easy for children to make with very limited adult supervision
2. This is delicious warm or cold spread with butter and will keep for ages in a tin. On the day it is made the crust is crispy then all the flavours merge giving a moist, slighty sticky tea bread
3. Soak the dried fruit in the tea - overnight is recomended (but a couple of hours is fine)
4. Grease and Line a 1lb loaf tin (double ingredients for 2lb is fine)
5. Add the sugar and stir till dissolved
6. Fold in the flour
7. Whisk the egg and fold it in.
8. If the mix is too dry, then add more tea - too wet add more flour
9. Pour the mixture into the tin and bake at 180C for 60-90 mins until a skewer comes out clean.
10. Allow to cool, slice, spread with butter and enjoy!
desserts, cake, children, fat free, tea, tea bread November 18, 2013 08:37
Author Blue Beter - BBC
I've been looking for this recipe for years - thank you - I even contact the blue peter team and they said they didn't recall having it on their show! Thank you it in the oven now