Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, earl grey tea loaf. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Earl Grey tea loaf is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Earl Grey tea loaf is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook earl grey tea loaf using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Earl Grey tea loaf:
- Get Earl Grey tea bags
- Prepare raisins
- Prepare apricots, chopped to the size of the raisins
- Prepare orange or clementine, zest and juice
- Take orange flower water
- Get egg
- Take light soft brown sugar
- Prepare self-raising flour
- Take mixed spice
- Prepare 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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