TEA BREAD

Tea bread sliced and buttered  is delicious and economical for tea time and  for packed lunches .Good with a cup of coffee too.



                                                                                                

 TEA BREAD 

375 ml (3/4  pint) cold tea saved from the tea pot.
350 grams mixed dried fruit
175 grams soft brown sugar
250grams self-raising flour
1 beaten egg

Method 

1. Put the tea,sugar, and dried fruit into a bowl and leave to soak for at least 1 hour ,preferably overnight.
2. Preheat the oven to 180C,Gas 4 ,
3. Line a 1kg loaf tin or 8 inch cake tin
4. Sieve the flour into the fruit mixture ,add the egg and beat well.
5. Put the mixture into the loaf tin  and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until golden and firm and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean 
6. Leave in the tin for 5 minutes then turn out and cool on a wire rack
7.  When cold slice thickly and serve buttered