Earl Grey tea loaf
Earl Grey tea loaf

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, earl grey tea loaf. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Dried fruit is plumped up by being soaked overnight in Earl Grey tea. After that it's a quick stir-together job and a couple of hours later, voila, the perfect tea loaf. There are two components we should probably first separate here - Earl Grey Tea and the loaf itself - to understand them better. Earl Grey is (usually) a type of Black Tea flavoured with bergamot oil.

Earl Grey tea loaf is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Earl Grey tea loaf is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have earl grey tea loaf using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Earl Grey tea loaf:
  1. Take 5 Earl Grey tea bags
  2. Make ready 300 g raisins
  3. Prepare 100 g apricots, chopped to the size of the raisins
  4. Make ready 1 orange or clementine, zest and juice
  5. Make ready 1 tbsp orange flower water
  6. Get 1 egg
  7. Get 200 g light soft brown sugar
  8. Prepare 400 g self-raising flour
  9. Make ready 1 tbsp mixed spice
  10. Get 25 g flaked almonds

This will be the tea cake to have on the table for an afternoon snack with a cup of Earl Grey! A loaf cake reminiscent of a nice cup of tea with some lemon and honey - this Earl Grey Loaf Cake is simply and deliciously satisfying! This Earl Grey Loaf Cake features an light, semi-spongey crumb that is moist and tender in texture. It gets its delightful Earl Grey flavor from the Earl Grey infused milk that is added to the batter!

Instructions to make Earl Grey tea loaf:
  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.

This Earl Grey Loaf Cake features an light, semi-spongey crumb that is moist and tender in texture. It gets its delightful Earl Grey flavor from the Earl Grey infused milk that is added to the batter! In processor, finely grind Earl Grey tea leaves and sugar. Whisk all-purpose flour, baking soda, and salt. With mixer on medium-high, beat softened.

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