Bara Brith
In celebration of the upcoming St David's Day and all things Welsh the lucky children in FFT Schools will be trying a range of nationally recognised dishes such as Cawl (traditional lamb stew) and Welsh Rarebit. This lovely fruit loaf is delicious on a cold day spread with salted butter and served with a hot cup of tea!
Ingredients
450g Self Raising Flour
100g Butter
1 Tsp Mixed Spice
1 Free Range Egg
150ml Fresh Orange Juice
1 tsp Orange Zest
1 tbsp Honey (Plus some to glaze after cooking)
450g Mixed Fruit
4000ml Cold Black Tea
- Make black tea using two tea bags
- Pour over mixed dried fruit and orange zest, leave over night to soak
- Mix together whisked egg, margarine, honey and orange juice
- Add to tea soaked fruit and zest
- Add flour with mixed spice and mix well until a cake batter is formed with a ‘dropping’ consistency
- Grease the loaf tins with margarine
- Add the cake mixture up to 2/3 of the way up the tins
- Cook in a pre-heated oven at 160˚C for 1 ¼ hours – Cover with tin foil half way through to prevent the mixture over colouring
- To check if its cooked, using a skewer should come out clean
- Allow to cool slightly in the tin before drizzling with honey and allow to cool fully
- Slice into 1 cm thick pieces and spread with salted butter