Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare 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.
Earl Grey tea loaf is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Earl Grey tea loaf is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook earl grey tea loaf using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Earl Grey tea loaf:
- Get 5 Earl Grey tea bags
- Prepare 300 g raisins
- Take 100 g apricots, chopped to the size of the raisins
- Take 1 orange or clementine, zest and juice
- Make ready 1 tbsp orange flower water
- Take 1 egg
- Make ready 200 g light soft brown sugar
- Get 400 g self-raising flour
- Prepare 1 tbsp mixed spice
- Get 25 g 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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