Bara Brith

Name: Bara Brith
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Welsh
Ingredients: 400g mixed dried fruit; 300ml strong hot tea; 250g self-raising flour; 150g brown sugar; 1 egg; 2 tsp mixed spice; butter to serve

A traditional Welsh spiced fruit bread soaked in tea — means speckled bread. Soaking the dried fruit in hot tea overnight plumps it up and keeps the finished loaf moist rather than dry and crumbly.

Total time

85 min

Prep

10 min

Cook

75 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

Welsh

vegetarian

Ingredients

400gmixed dried fruit

300mlstrong hot tea

250gself-raising flour

150gbrown sugar

1egg

2 tspmixed spice

butterto serve

Instructions

Soak fruit in hot tea overnight or for at least 4 hours.

Beat in sugar, egg and mixed spice.

Fold in flour until combined.

Pour into a greased loaf tin.

Bake at 160°C for 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool fully before slicing and spreading with butter.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

708

Protein

10.6g

Fat

2.6g

Carbs

166g

Fiber

8.1g

Sodium

413mg

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