Bara Brith Welsh without yeast

 This is the famous Welsh bread without yeast. The recipe was Elizabeth Foulkes' of Bontnewydd in North Wales. It is delicious, thinly sliced with butter.

 Ingredients:

• 1 lb self rising flour or 4 cups plain flour and 1/4 cup baking powder)
• 1 lb of mixed dried fruit
• 2 tablespoons of marmalade
• 6 tablespoons of sugar
• half a pint of warm tea (don't put the milk in!)
• a teaspoon of mixed spice
• 1 egg
• Honey to glaze

 Method

• Mix the dried fruit, sugar and tea. Leave this mixture to stand over night.
• Next day - stir in the flour, spice and marmalade and the egg (well-beaten).
• Pour in the mixture into a loaf tin with grease-proof paper then cook at 325 degree Fahrenheit for one and three-quarter hours (105 minutes).
• Turn out on a rack and brush with warm honey to glaze.

 


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