Bara Brith

Bara brith, or "speckled bread", is a traditional Welsh fruit loaf. Our version is baked using self-raising flour instead of the traditional yeast method, however it is delicious served sliced and buttered. Yum.

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Serves 12

Ingredients

200ml strong tea, strained
400g mixed dried fruit
150g light Muscovado sugar
1 orange, zest only
100g unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 large egg, beaten
300g self-raising flour
2 tsp ground mixed spice
15 cubes sugar, roughly cut

Total time required 1 hr 30 mins

Preparation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 1 hr 15 mins

Prepare Ahead

Place the tea and dried fruit in a mixing bowl. Cover and leave to soak overnight.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 170ºC/150ºC fan/Gas 3. Grease and line a 1.2-litre non-stick loaf tin with non-stick baking parchment.
Add the sugar to the dried fruit mix and stir well. Add the orange zest, butter and beaten egg and stir together.
Sieve the flour and mixed spice into the bowl and stir everything well.
Spoon the mixture into the loaf tin. Scatter over the sugar cubes.
Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Leave to cool completely in the baking tin. Serve sliced and buttered.