Earl Grey tea loaf

Name: Earl Grey tea loaf
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 5 Earl Grey tea bags; 300 g raisins; 100 g apricots, chopped to the size of the raisins; 1 orange or clementine, zest and juice; 1 tbsp orange flower water; 1 egg; 200 g light soft brown sugar; 400 g self-raising flour; 1 tbsp mixed spice; 25 g flaked almonds

Lottie Storey @cook_7427375

Bristol, UK

I have a well-documented love of tea. As well as attempting to start my mornings with a healthy green tea, I've been finding other ways to a. take tea, and b. eat healthily. What better way than with a fragrant, fat-free Earl Grey tea loaf? A delicious way to detox.

Lottie Storey @cook_7427375

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Ingredients

5Earl Grey tea bags
300 graisins
100 gapricots, chopped to the size of the raisins
1orange or clementine, zest and juice
1 tbsporange flower water
1egg
200 glight soft brown sugar
400 gself-raising flour
1 tbspmixed spice
25 gflaked almonds

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Steps

1

Brew your tea-bags with 300ml boiling water. Leave for at least five minutes.
2

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.
3

Preheat your oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4, butter and line your loaf tin.
4

Add the orange flower water to the fruit mixture and grate over the orange zest.
5

Beat together the eggs and the sugar, either in a freestanding mixer or by hand.
6

Mix in the sieved flour and spice.
7

Stir in the fruit, the tea, and the juice of the orange, and mix well.
8

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.
9

Bake for one hour, test with a skewer or toothpick. Give it another ten minutes if batter still sticks to your tester.
10

When cooked, allow the loaf to cool in its tin on a rack, before turning out.
11

Best served with a hot cup of tea and a good old chinwag.

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Lottie Storey @cook_7427375

on April 05, 2017 21:06

Bristol, UK

Food & lifestyle blogger at Oyster & Pearl: www.oysterandpearl.co.uk • Instagram: www.instagram.com/lottie_storey • Co-author of The Mount Athos Diet: www.lottiestorey.co.uk/the-mount-athos-diet • English storysmith • Francophile flaneur