Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, earl grey tea loaf. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Earl Grey tea loaf is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Earl Grey tea loaf is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
We stock many types here at The Kent and Sussex Tea and Coffee Company. However, your best bet is to get a simple variety when making the best Earl Grey Tea Fruit Loaf Recipe. If you'd like an extra cuppa to complement it, consider Cream Earl Grey Tea or Earl Grey Tea with Cornflowers. How to cook Earl Grey Tea Loaf.
To get started 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:
- Take 5 Earl Grey tea bags
- Make ready 300 g raisins
- Make ready 100 g apricots, chopped to the size of the raisins
- Prepare 1 orange or clementine, zest and juice
- Get 1 tbsp orange flower water
- Make ready 1 egg
- Take 200 g light soft brown sugar
- Make ready 400 g self-raising flour
- Take 1 tbsp mixed spice
- Get 25 g flaked almonds
A tea cake that's true to its name, this loaf harnesses the power of citrusy Earl Grey tea for its distinct flavor. Lemon poppyseed can't hold a candle. Because high quality loose-leaf tea is. This Earl Grey Tea Loaf is super light, moist, and not too sweet.
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.
Because high quality loose-leaf tea is. 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. 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 bread is a sweet recipe, but perfect alongside tea or coffee!
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