Earl Grey tea loaf
Earl Grey tea loaf

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, earl grey tea loaf. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. 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 favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Earl Grey tea loaf is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have 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. Get 5 Earl Grey tea bags
  2. Take 300 g raisins
  3. Make ready 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. Get 1 egg
  7. Get 200 g light soft brown sugar
  8. Make ready 400 g self-raising flour
  9. Get 1 tbsp mixed spice
  10. Prepare 25 g flaked almonds

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 butter and tea sugar in large bowl until fluffy. On low speed, gradually add flour mixture.

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.

Earl Grey tea is a tea blend which has been flavoured with the addition of oil of bergamot. The rind's fragrant oil is added to black tea to give Earl Grey its unique taste. Traditionally, Earl Grey was made from black teas such as China keemun and therefore intended to be. Earl Grey tea is a flavored tea that is infused with bergamot orange. Flavored teas consist of true tea leaves that are infused or blended with Earl Grey tea protects teeth from oral infections and tooth decay.

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