Tea loaf recipe please!

zippychick

That would be to your own taste really! Tea loaf is nice enough on its own but i was rared to eat it smothered with butter! Toasted can be nice too with butter of course

Eat it with boiled eggs if so takes your fancy !:D:p

mioliere

Perfect with butter - I've never tried it without!

zippychick

I guess it depends on the recipe and how moist the tealoaf is. Most should be moist because of the plumped up fruit .

I remember putting butter on a coconut finger once and the person who was with me recoiling in horror!:o

grumswifie

Hello

Glad to see that the tea loaf is still going strong! I must say I like some butter on mine, seems to healthy without it!!

sparrer

Just bumping this in case newbies/others haven't seen it, and to say I've made four more loaves this morning.

Added chopped cherries/dried apricots to one, sprinkled the top of another with flaked almonds and a row of halved walnuts, the third I left plain and the fourth I put a layer of marzipan through the middle. If it works I'll add a layer to the top and decorate, it'll be a very MS 'simnel' lookalike

I love this recipe!

mummybearx

Looking for a brownie recipe, it's asking for 'cocoa', is this the same as drinking chocolate?

Sorry if that's a daft question

Also, does anyone have a recipe for a fruit loaf type cake thing? Everything I've read calls for the dried fruit to be soaked in tea overnight, but I remember making a fruit loaf with my granny and she never used tea.... any ideas?

Thanks

floss2

No, cocoa & drinking chocolate aren't the same....drinking choc has sugar added.

Possession

No it isn't the same unfortunately.
I make a boiled fruit cake - this one is very nice:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/5824/nans-boiled-fruit-cake

Soapy955

Cocoa will give you a more intense, dark, chocolate colour and flavour to your brownies. I don't think drinking chocolate would quite work.

zippychick

ive merged this with our tea loaf thread as there are loads of recipes in here

Zip