Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, earl grey tea loaf. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Loaves are, in my humble opinion, the underrated hero of the cake world. They often appear understated but, ooo baby, can they ever pack a flavour punch! This little earl grey number is one of my go-tos for tea time when I want to amp up a classic tea loaf just a bit.

Earl Grey tea loaf is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Earl Grey tea loaf is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Earl Grey tea loaf:

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

A wide variety of earl grey tea leaf options are available to you, such as processing type, certification, and style. The top countries of suppliers are India, China, and. It's an Apricot and Earl Grey Fruit Loaf, and I'm eating it right now. Beautiful soft texture with bursts of fruity sweetness and the occasional bergamot explosion of the Earl Grey tea.

Steps 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.

I based this loaf around SourDoms Basic Fruit Bread, so thank you Dom for such a great loaf. I've put a refined twist on an old favourite - tea bread or tea loaf has been made in households all over the UK, gaining popularity during and after the war years due to The twist, if I can even call it that is to replace regular black tea with Earl Grey - a tea that has been mixed and flavoured with oil of bergamot. The distinctive aroma that derived from the oil of bergamot never fail to delight me each time. It was originally a cupcake recipe, featuring earl grey and orange but I made it into a loaf and omitted the orange because I wanted something. Always Fresh -Handcrafted in small batches in Hudson Valley, New York -Every order comes with a free tea sample!

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