Irish Tea Barmbrack
- 2 cups raisins
- 3/4 cup golden raisins (sultanas)
- 1/4 cup candied mixed fruit peel
- 1 teaspoon molasses (treacle), or more to taste (optional)
- 1 1/4 cups warm, strong black tea
- 1 3/4 cups self-rising flour
- 1 cup turbinado (demerara) sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice (mixed spice)
- Mix raisins, golden raisins, mixed fruit peel, and molasses with black tea in a bowl; cover and let soak, 8 hours to overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and line a loaf pan with parchment paper.
- Stir flour, turbinado sugar, egg, and pumpkin pie spice into raisin mixture until well mixed; pour into the prepared loaf pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until barmbrack is firm to the touch, about 1 1/2 hours. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
raisins, golden raisins, candied mixed fruit peel, molasses, warm, flour, turbinado, egg, pumpkin pie spice
Taken from www.allrecipes.com/recipe/256976/irish-tea-barmbrack/ (may not work)