BM# 75: A-Z Bake Around the World: Day 20
Bake of the Day: T for Tea Brack
Country: Ireland
We are starting the last week of our month long mega marathon and today we are baking a dish with the letter T. I have a delicious fruit cake called Tea Brack from Ireland. Mir recently posted the recipe for Irish Barmbrack, which looked amazing and here’s another version of the same bread. Barmbrack is a traditional Irish sweetened bread that is very similar to Welsh bara brith. It is also known as Irish Speckled loaf because the bread is dotted with raisins and other dried fruit. The dry fruit are soaked in tea and then used in the bread which gives the bread a nice tea flavor in the background.Traditionally when this barmbrack was baked for Halloween, they would a pea, a stick, a piece of cloth, a coin and a ring to the bread. Each item had a special significance to the person who discovered it in their slice of bread. The person who gets the pea wouldn’t marry that year; the stick meant an unhappy marriage; the cloth indicated poverty and the coin riches; while the person who found the ring would wed within the year.I used the recipe from King Arthur flour. This recipe only required the fruit to be soaked in hot tea for 1 hour. I used Earl grey tea, but Irish breakfasttea is a good choice. 2 tablespoons of Irish whiskey can be substituted for an equal amount of tea in the recipe.This fruit bread is dense, packed with fruit but still moist and delicious. It is entirely made with whole wheat flour, which I love. There is no added fat in the recipe. It is great to eat with some soft butter. Bread keeps well at room temperature for up to 10 days.
Tea Brack is a delicious Irish fruit bread that is packed with dry fruit soaked in tea. It is great to eat with some soft butter for breakfast. Bread keeps well at room temperature for up to 10 days.
Tea Brack is a delicious Irish fruit bread that is packed with dry fruit soaked in tea. It is great to eat with some soft butter for breakfast. Bread keeps well at room temperature for up to 10 days.
wow..I am loving this version with the sparkling sugar..the sugar looks beautiful and the cake..well it is a version of bara birth and since I have tasted it I can vouch for the flavor.extra ordinary.
What an amazing texture your cake’s got Pavani, will surely bookmark this..so wonderful to know this is completely whole wheat..makes it so healthy as well..
wow..I am loving this version with the sparkling sugar..the sugar looks beautiful and the cake..well it is a version of bara birth and since I have tasted it I can vouch for the flavor.extra ordinary.
This one looks fabulous….me have to grab a slice 😋
Tea Brack rocks, with loads of dry fruits. I can imagine having this excellent tea brack with some butter. Fantastic find.
Never used Tea in baking. The brack sounds super healthy with dry fruits and wheat flour. Great share Pavani.
Very interesting with fruits soaked in tea. Love the dense cake with ww flour.
What an amazing texture your cake’s got Pavani, will surely bookmark this..so wonderful to know this is completely whole wheat..makes it so healthy as well..
The whole wheat cake is loaded with rich and tempting flavors. Bookmarked to try soon.
Lovely cake and a nice different name. feels like breakfast + snack = brack
Awesome bake.. So love the crust and flavor of the cake!!
Love whole wheat bakes and this has such a great texture. I can’t wait to try this sometime soon. Love dense fruit cakes with my evening coffee.