Irish Fruit Cake (Barm Brack)
Barm Brack is bread from Ireland where it is traditionally associated with their celebration of Halloween. I just like it for afternoon tea with lots of butter.
Ingredients
Serves: 10
- 1 3/4 cups (430ml) brewed black tea, cold
- 1 1/2 cups (220g) light brown soft sugar
- 1 cup (180g) sultanas
- 1/4 cup (60g) chopped candied peel
- 1 1/4 cups (155g) self raising flour
- 1 egg, whisked
Directions
Preparation:10min ›
Cook:1hour45min ›
Ready in:1hour55min
- Put the tea, sugar, sultanas and peel into a bowl. Cover and leave to soak overnight.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease and flour a 20cm round cake tin.
- Sift the flour into the fruit mixture. Add the egg and beat well. Pour into the cake pan.
- Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour and 45 minutes or until skewer inserted into centre of cake comes out clean. Leave in the tin for 5 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
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Used different ingredients. I added orange peel & dried fruit in place of the citron. - 18 Jul 2008
Not very successful. Amount of flour used wasn't enough as the cake was raw after 2 hours of cooking time - too much liquid, not enough flour. - 06 Mar 2012
Yum yum yum yum yum yum! Made me feel really homesick, and went straight online and bought a couple of plane tickets to Ireland. That's the effect it had on me, so you can guess I liked it. - 18 Jul 2008