Bara Brith
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28 · A traditional recipe for Bara Brith, which translates as "speckled bread" in Welsh. This recipe makes a large, rich Bara Brith tea loaf, but is made with SR flour and not yeast, so it can be made very quickly and easily. However, you do need to allow time to soak the fruit overnight, but after that, it's a very simple "all in one" recipe for this beautiful Welsh tea loaf.
28 · A traditional recipe for Bara Brith, which translates as "speckled bread" in Welsh. This recipe makes a large, rich Bara Brith tea loaf, but is made with SR flour and not yeast, so it can be made very quickly and easily. However, you do need to allow time to soak the fruit overnight, but after that, it's a very simple "all in one" recipe for this beautiful Welsh tea loaf.
Ingredients
Produce
- • 50 g Dates, pitted
- • 450 g Dried fruit and peel, mixed
- • 1/2 tsp Ginger, powder
- • 50 g Preserved ginger
- • 300 ml Tea, hot
Refrigerated
- • 2 Eggs, free-range
Condiments
- • 4 tbsp Marmalade plus
Baking & Spices
- • 4 tbsp Brown sugar, soft
- • 1 tsp Spice, mixed
- • 450 g Sr flour
Dairy
- • 25 g Butter
Grace Mc Cullough Larson saved to Baked Goods
3 · 50 minutes · A traditional tea loaf originating from Wales, Bara Brith is a deliciously moist, sweet fruit cake topped with a sticky tea glaze!
Ingredients
Produce
- • 400 g Dried fruit, mixed
- • 1 Orange, Zest of large
- • 280 ml Tea, strong hot
Refrigerated
- • 1 Egg, medium
Baking & Spices
- • 2 tsp Baking powder, level
- • 200 g Brown sugar, dark
- • 260 g Plain flour
- • 1/4 tsp Salt, level
- • 1 tsp Spice, mixed level
Dairy
- • 30 g Butter, unsalted
Fine Eating saved to Fruit cake recipe easy
24 · Studded with plump raisins and currants soaked in tea and mingled with candied citrus peel and aromatic spices, Bara Brith is Wales' famous tea bread!
Ingredients
Produce
- • 4 oz Black currants, dried
- • 1 1/3 cups Black tea, very strong
- • 1 oz Candied lemon peel
- • 1 Candied lemon/orange peel recipe, Homemade
- • 1 oz Candied orange peel
- • 10 oz Combination of raisins and sultanas
Refrigerated
- • 1 Egg, large
Baking & Spices
- • 3 cups All-purpose flour
- • 3 3/4 tsp Baking powder
- • 1 cup Brown sugar, packed dark
- • 1 1/4 tsp Salt
- • 2 1/2 tsp Spice, mixed
- • 1 Spice recipe, Homemade Mixed
Dairy
- • 4 tbsp Butter, unsalted
Jackie Long saved to Blogs
A traitional Welsh family 'Bara Brith' recipe. Delicious smothered in butter with a nice hot cup of tea.
Tina bennetts saved to Cake
15 · A simple and popular Welsh cake. easy to make and keeps well. If you can resist eating it that is! Remember to soak the fruit the night before.
Ingredients
Produce
- • 300 ml Black tea, strong hot
- • 400 g Dried fruit, mixed
Refrigerated
- • 2 Eggs
Baking & Spices
- • 100 g Demerara sugar
- • 250 g Self-raising flour
- • 1 tsp Spice, mixed
Dairy
- • 1 Butter
15 · A simple and popular Welsh cake. easy to make and keeps well. If you can resist eating it that is! Remember to soak the fruit the night before.
Ingredients
Produce
- • 300 ml Black tea, strong hot
- • 400 g Dried fruit, mixed
Refrigerated
- • 2 Eggs
Baking & Spices
- • 100 g Demerara sugar
- • 250 g Self-raising flour
- • 1 tsp Spice, mixed
Dairy
- • 1 Butter
"Bara Brith" literally means "speckled bread." Baked and sold commercially in most parts of Wales, virtually every region, town, and family seems to have its own special version of this recipe.
Gluten free tea bread tastes marvelous, also known as Bara Brith. Chock full of dried fruit, you'll be making it on a regular basis!
Leah B saved to Baking & Desserts
I fancied making some Bara Brith over the weekend, but I wanted to try something a little different to the traditional tea loaf we all know and love. I wanted something a bit more bitesized –…
Elizabeth Owen saved to Good eats
