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Borrowdale Tea Bread

Ingredients

250g currants/sultanas/raisins

250ml cold black tea

115g soft brown sugar

1 egg, beaten

225g self-raising flour, sifted

1 tsp cinnamon 

Recipe

1. Soak currants/sultanas/raisins in tea for 12 hours. 

2. Pre-heat the oven to 170c/160c Fan, and line the base of a 1kg loaf tin. 

3. Combine the dry ingredients and combine using a balloon whisk, then add the beaten egg and mix until combined. 

4. Add the currant mixture and any residual tea.

5. Bake for 1hr-1hr 15mins until a skewer comes out clean through the middle of the loaf.