Báirín Breac (Irish Tea Brack)
A sweet treat that is perfect with a cup of tea. Our Firebird Range Cooker evenly bakes and gives a great rise to cakes, muffins, and loaves. Make sure to soak your dried fruit in the tea overnight so your brack is moist and bursting with flavor.
I have always added figs as it gives the cake extra moisture. The range provides really even distribution of cake and prevents the top from burning despite the slow bake.
Serves: 10
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 100g raisins
- 100g sultanas
- 50g figs
- 50g candied peel
- 2 tea bags
- 150g light brown sugar
- 150g self raising flour
- 1 egg
Method
- Place the raisins, sultanas, figs, candied peel and sugar in a bowl along with the tea bags and 300ml of water. Cover with a tea twel and allow to soak overnight (click on the lightbulb if you need this cake in your mouth sooner!).
- Preheat the oven to 150C.
- Remove the tea bags and stir in the egg . Next fold in the flour until just combined.
- Pour the mixture into a 2lb greased loaf tin. Level the mixture with a spatula and bake in the top oven for 1hr.
- Enjoy buttered with a cup of tea.
Suggestions
If time doesn’t allow for overnight soaking simply place all the ingredients for step 1 into a saucepan and place on the boiling plate for 30 minutes at 150C.
