Earl Grey tea loaf
Earl Grey tea loaf

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, earl grey tea loaf. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Relax with a Cup of Harney & Sons Tea. Organic Tea Blends from the Very Best Sources. A tea cake that's true to its name, this loaf harnesses the power of citrusy Earl Grey tea for its distinct flavor.

Earl Grey tea loaf is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Earl Grey tea loaf is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook 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:
  1. Take 5 Earl Grey tea bags
  2. Prepare 300 g raisins
  3. Get 100 g apricots, chopped to the size of the raisins
  4. Get 1 orange or clementine, zest and juice
  5. Get 1 tbsp orange flower water
  6. Prepare 1 egg
  7. Take 200 g light soft brown sugar
  8. Make ready 400 g self-raising flour
  9. Get 1 tbsp mixed spice
  10. Make ready 25 g flaked almonds

This will be the tea cake to have on the table for an afternoon snack with a cup of Earl Grey! This Earl Grey Tea Loaf is super light, moist, and not too sweet. The spices meld beautifully with the Earl Grey and the dark flecks of tea leaves speckling the loaf are a delightful sight to behold. You will want to eat this slice after slice, washed down with giant mugs of coffee or tea (whatever's your pleasure). earl grey tea fruit loaf.

Instructions to make Earl Grey tea loaf:
  1. Brew your tea-bags with 300ml boiling water. Leave for at least five minutes. Earl Grey tea loaf1. 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.
  2. Preheat your oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4, butter and line your loaf tin.
  3. Add the orange flower water to the fruit mixture and grate over the orange zest.
  4. Beat together the eggs and the sugar, either in a freestanding mixer or by hand.
  5. Mix in the sieved flour and spice.
  6. Stir in the fruit, the tea, and the juice of the orange, and mix well.
  7. 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.
  8. Bake for one hour, test with a skewer or toothpick. Give it another ten minutes if batter still sticks to your tester.
  9. When cooked, allow the loaf to cool in its tin on a rack, before turning out.
  10. Best served with a hot cup of tea and a good old chinwag.

I adore fruitcake in any permutation so when I stumbled on this recipe I knew I needed to give it a bash. You stir everything together easily by hand and if you like butter on your fruit bread, this is the perfect vessel in which to enjoy it. A delightfully delicate Earl Grey Tea Loaf - this soft, fruit-filled sponge is perfect for an afternoon treat, light pudding, or even sweet breakfast. I love cake and I love dried fruit. So really, a fruity Earl Grey Tea Loaf was always going to be a win.

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