Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf.
You can cook Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf
- It’s 220 g of luxury dried mixed fruit.
- It’s 40 g of butter.
- Prepare 145 ml of water.
- It’s 175 g of self raising flour.
- It’s 1/4 tsp of Bicarbonate of Soda.
- You need 5 of cardamom pods, de-seeded and crushed.
- You need 1 tsp of Mixed Spice.
- It’s 1 pinch of salt.
- Prepare 1 of egg.
- It’s 110 g of dark muscavado sugar.
- Prepare Half of a cooking apple, cored and sliced.
Fragrant Spiced Tea Loaf step by step
- Preheat the oven to 160C fan. Grease and line with parchment paper a 1lb loaf tin..
- 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..
- Cream together the egg and sugar for 10 minutes until paler in colour using a beater. Add the cardamom and mixed spice.
- Sift the flour, bicarb of soda and salt into a separate bowl..
- 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..
- 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..