Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, earl grey tea loaf. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Earl Grey tea loaf is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Earl Grey tea loaf is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have earl grey tea loaf using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Earl Grey tea loaf:
- Prepare 5 Earl Grey tea bags
- Get 300 g raisins
- Prepare 100 g apricots, chopped to the size of the raisins
- Make ready 1 orange or clementine, zest and juice
- Get 1 tbsp orange flower water
- Prepare 1 egg
- Prepare 200 g light soft brown sugar
- Make ready 400 g self-raising flour
- Get 1 tbsp mixed spice
- Get 25 g flaked almonds
Instructions to make Earl Grey tea loaf:
- Brew your tea-bags with 300ml boiling water. Leave for at least five minutes.
- Put the raisins and apricots into a pan, pour over your tea, and bring to the boil. Leave for about an hour, both for the fruit to plump up in the tea and for everything to cool down.
- Preheat your oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4, butter and line your loaf tin.
- Add the orange flower water to the fruit mixture and grate over the orange zest.
- Beat together the eggs and the sugar, either in a freestanding mixer or by hand.
- Mix in the sieved flour and spice.
- Stir in the fruit, the tea, and the juice of the orange, and mix well.
- Scrape this sweet-smelling batter into your loaf tin, smooth down the top, scatter over the almonds, and put into the centre of your oven.
- Bake for one hour, test with a skewer or toothpick. Give it another ten minutes if batter still sticks to your tester.
- When cooked, allow the loaf to cool in its tin on a rack, before turning out.
- Best served with a hot cup of tea and a good old chinwag.
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