Bara Brith recipe

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Ingredients

1 cup hot brewed tea
¾ cup dried currants
¾ cup golden raisins
¾ cup demerara sugar
1 ¼ cups self-rising flour
1 egg, beaten

Nutrition Info

188.7 calories
carbohydrate: 43.2 g
cholesterol: 23.3 mg
fat: 0.9 g
fiber: 2.1 g
protein: 3.8 g
saturatedFat: 0.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 260.7 mg
sugar: 24.6 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Pour hot tea over currants and raisins in a bowl, soak 8 hours to overnight.

  2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

  3. Grease a sheet of parchment paper and use it to line a 2-pound loaf pan.

  4. Stir demerara sugar into tea and fruit mixture until dissolved completely.

  5. Mix flour and egg into the tea and fruit mixture until completely integrated into a batter.

  6. Spread batter evenly into the prepared bread pan.

  7. Bake in preheated oven until golden-brown, about 40 minutes. Cool in the bread pan 5 minutes before transferring to a rack to cool completely.

Recipe Yield

1 2-pound loaf

Recipe Note

A sweet, yeast-less Welsh bread studded with dried fruit. I generally soak my raisins in Irish breakfast tea, but feel free to experiment with flavors.

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