International Recipes
Irish Recipes
Tea Brack
Tea brack is a fat-free yet moist and intensely spicy bread/cake that is
sort of a poor man's plum pudding. But it's much easier to make than plum pudding.
If you're using this tea brack for the pudding recipe that follows, you'll need
to start at least two days ahead of the time you want to serve it.
2 cups sultana or other yellow raisins
2 cups dark seedless raisins or dried currants
1 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups strong black tea
1 1/2 cups Irish whiskey
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
3 level teaspoons baking powder
Pinch of sea salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon,
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon mace
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds, crushed
3 beaten eggs
Grated rind of 1 lemon
Soak the raisins, brown sugar, tea and whiskey in a large bowl for 12 hours
or overnight. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and spices. Add to raisin
mixture along with beaten eggs and lemon rind. Pour batter into 2 greased 8
x 4-inch loaf pans. Bake for 1 1/2 hours at 300 degrees F. Remove from pan.
Let cool on rack.
Makes 2 loaves.
Nutritional information per serving (24 servings): 204 calories, 7 grams
fat, 3 grams protein, 39 grams carbohydrate, 2 grams fiber
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