Cake: Irish Tea Cake

• 1 pint strong tea
• 200 g chewy banana chips
• 125 g cranberries or 125 g raisins
• 200 g dates
• 160 g demerara sugar
• 125 g chopped walnuts
• 1 large egg
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 450 g self raising flour

1. Soak the dried fruit for 1 1/2 hrs in strongly brewed tea.
2. Line a 28 x 23cm / 11" x 9" baking tin with baking parchment and lightly grease with vegetable oil.
3. Beat the egg and milk together.
4. Mash the soaked fruit with a fork, then stir in remaining ingredients.
5. Spread the mixture in roasting tin/s.
6. Bake in the centre of preheated oven at 170 for about 1 1/2 hrs until golden brown on top and springy to the touch in the centre.
7. Turn out immediately onto a wire rack.

tea, banana chips, cranberries, dates, sugar, walnuts, egg, milk, flour

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/cake-irish-tea-cake-215037 (may not work)