Best Tea Brack Recipes

BARM BRACK (IRISH WHISKEY TEA LOAF)

Steps:

• First soak the raisins and sugar in the tea (or tea and whiskey) overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
• Add Flour, baking powder, and eggs to the tea mixture.
• Spoon the dough into a greased loaf pans. You should be able to fill 3 loaf pans, 8x4 inches (20x10 cm). (I prefer to make them in ready to give away little loaf pans which makes about five per batch).
• Place loaf pans in the oven and bake for 1 hour and 45minutes.
• Leave Bram Brack to cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack and glaze the top with the melted honey. ( If you go with the small give away kind let cool then leave in tin drizzle honey on the top and cover with a little room on top and then give them away when ready.).

TEA BRACK

Steps:

• Steep the dried fruit, brown sugar and tea in a bowl for 24 hours
• Sift your flour and spices into a large bowl
• Add the ingredients in the bowl of steeped fruits, tea and sugar into the flour and spice
• Add the egg into that mixture
• Mix thoroughly until no flour can be seen
• Grease a loaf tin and scoop the mixture into it with a spatula
• Bake in a pre-heated oven at 175 degrees celcius for 50-60 minutes
• Enjoy when cooled plain or some people enjoy it with butter.

BARM BRACK (IRISH TEA LOAF)

Steps:

• 1. Soak raisins, peel,and sugar in the cold tea overnight in the refrigerator. Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees. Sift flour and mix with soda and salt. blend in egg and the tea-raisin mixture. pour into well greased loaf pan as directed above. bake 1 hour or until firm to touch. allow to cool 10 minutes,and turn out onto wire rack to cool completely.

BRACK - TEA LOAF

Steps:

• Mix together the dried fruit, sugar and hot tea.
• Cover and leave overnight.
• Add the egg beat well, then stir in the flour.
• Grease a 1-lb loaf tin; line the base with greaseproof paper.
• Place the mixture into the tin and bake for about 1 ½ hours at 160c (fan).
• Always use hot tea so the sugar dissolves and the dried fruit swells more easily.
• Prep time doesn't include soak time.

TEA BRACK

Steps:

• Place tea bags in large bowl. Add 1 cup boiling water and let steep 5 minutes. Remove tea bags. Add all raisins, sugar and orange peel to bowl. Cover and let stand overnight, stirring once or twice.
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Generously butter bottom and sides of 9-inch-diameter springform pan. Mix egg into tea mixture. Add flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, allspice and cloves and mix well. Transfer batter to prepared pan. Bake until top is golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 15 minutes (bread will fill half to two-thirds of pan). Cool bread in pan on rack. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and let stand at room temperature.) Release pan sides from bread. Slice bread; serve with butter.

CRANBERRY AND ORANGE TEA BRACK

Steps:

• Place the raisins and cranberries in a bowl and pour in the tea. The tea (Barry's of course) can be hot or cold. Leave to cool, cover in clingfilm and soak overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease a small loaf tin with low-fat spread.
• Sieve the flour, baking powder and baking soda. Add the orange zest, the egg and mix in the fruit with the tea. Add the orange juice, the mixture should be quite sloppy.
• Stir together to mix. Spoon into the tin and smooth over. Bake for an hour or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted in the centre.
• Put on the kettle and relax with your tasty brack and lashings of butter.

IRISH HALLOWEEN TEA BRACK

Steps:

• Put tea, sugar, lemon rind and dried fruits into a bowl, stir well. Then cover and leave over night to soak, least for 12 hours.
• Next day = Pre- heat over to 180c/350f .Grease a 2lb loaf tin with little butter and line the bottom with greaseproof paper. wrap the coin or ring what ever you choose ,up in greaseproof paper and set a side.
• Beat the egg and mix it thoroughly with the fruit. Sieved flour, all spice, bicar-soda together and stir into the fruit mixture . Turn out the mixture into the loaf tin ,spread out event on top. Get the coin and push it into mixture not flat but side ways. place in the pre-heated oven and bake for 1 hour, now after 40 minutes place tin foil over the top of tea brack to stop it getting too brown , continue to bake for the remaining 10 minutes.
• Allow the Tea Brack to cool in tin for 15 minutes, before turning out on to wire rack. Heat slightly the honey or golden syrup and brush over the top of brack before cutting to give a nice glaze.
• Note= Don't give in to temptation to eat until completely cool (you will be tempted!!) serve with a spread of butter and a lovely cup of tea. The Irish tradition is the ring in the tea brack was if you got it in a slice you would get married and the money was for wealth.. hope you like and enjoy.. :)

IRISH TEA BRACK

Steps:

• soak fruit and sugar in tea and vanilla overnight preheat oven to 170 C / 325 F sieve flour and spices into bowl melt butter. beat eggs. add eggs & butter to fruit mixture add flour mixture to fruit mixture. mix well put mixture in greased 8 inch round tin and bake for 1.5 hrs

VEGAN IRISH TEA BRACK

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
• Add dried fruits to hot tea. Dissolve in the sugar. Let soak for about 15 minutes.
• Mix baking powder and flour.
• Add liquid ingredients, stir and mix well.
• Add mash bananas.
• Pour into a loaf tin.
• Bake for 1h and 30 minutes (or until a metal skewer comes out clean). I baked this at 180 degrees Celsius for the first 20 minutes, then lowered to 160 degrees for the next 50 minutes, and then 170 degrees for the final 20 minutes. I turned off the oven and let it sit in there for another 10 minutes.
• (But do the fork test to see when yours is done. You might need less time...)
• Allow to cool before cutting.

IRISH TEA BRACK

Steps:

• 1. Put the tea, sugar and dried fruit in a bowl, cover and leave to soak overnight,.
• 2. Preheat the oven to 180 C /350 F / Gas 4 and line a greased 2lb (900g) loaf tin.
• 3. Add the lightly beaten egg to the fruit mixture.
• 4. Sieve the flour and baking soda together and fold into the mixture. Turn into the prepared tin. Place in the oven and bake for 11/2 - 1 3/4 hours.
• 5. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before slicing.