Free Recipe Barm Brack (Traditional Irish Bread)
Recipe Type: B Recipes
Recipe Preparation: bake
Cooking Ingredients for Barm Brack (Traditional Irish Bread) Recipe
2-1/2 c Mixed dry fruit-currants>>>
Dark & golden raisins.
1 c Boiling black tea
1 Egg
1 ts Mixed spice (see note*)
4 ts Marmalade
1 c (heaping)superfine sugar
2-1/2 c Self-rising flour
Barm Brack (Traditional Irish Bread) Preparation
Place dried fruit in a bowl, cover with the hot tea and let soak overnight. The next day, add the remaining ingreds. and mix well. Preheat oven to 375 F. Pour batten into greased 7 square pan and bake in the center of oven for 1 1/2 hrs. Let cool in the pan on awire rack. Slice and serve buttered with tea. NOTE* (Mixed spices: equal parts of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, allspice, and mace. 1. In Northern Ireland and in the Republic, BRACK is the Celtic word for salt and is used to mean bread . Barm brack is leavened bread, the word BARM meaning yeast. 2. The term barmbrack for an Irish fruit loaf or cake does not derive from barm or leaven. It is a corruption of the Irish word aran breac (Speckled Bread). From Gemini”s MASSIVE MealMaster collection
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Recipe Serves: 1
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