Thank you Nigella for this easy tea bread recipe, which makes a nice alternative to all that Easter chocolate! It is a bit like fruit cake, with the moistness of currants, marmalade and tea, and is particularly good with butter. Soak the mixed dried fruit the night before if you can, to get them really plump, then it only takes 5 minutes to mix all the ingredients together before baking. Accompanying cup of tea is essential. Happy Easter!
Ingredients
1 mug cold tea (no milk)
8oz (225g) mixed dried fruit (if you don’t like peel just use sultanas and currants)
8oz (225g) self-raising flour
4oz (125g) caster sugar
1 large egg, lightly beaten
2 tbsp orange marmalade
Grease a loaf tin. Preheat oven to 180 degrees/gas mark 4.
Place the fruit in a small bowl and pour the cold tea over the top. Soak overnight if possible, or until the fruit swells. In a bowl combine the flour, sugar, egg and marmalade, then pour in the fruit and any tea left in the bowl. Stir thoroughly. Put into loaf tin and bake in the oven for 1 hour. Allow to cool slightly before removing from the tin.
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