Borrowdale Teabread

Ingredients

• 9 oz plain flour
• ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 16 oz mixed fruit
• 1 oz butter (melted)
• 6 oz soft brown sugar
• 1 egg
• ½ pint strong tea

Method

• Soak fruit overnight in the tea
• The next day, stir in the sugar, beaten egg and melted butter
• Sieve together the flour and bicarbonate of soda and fold them into the mixture
• Divide the mixture between two greased/ lined 1lb loaf tins
• Bake for one hour on gas mark 4 – electric 180c – 350f