BARM BRACK (TRADITIONAL IRISH BREAD)

Ingredients

• •2 1/2 c Mixed dry fruit--currants>>>
• •Dark & golden raisins.
• •1 c Boiling black tea
• •1 ea Egg
• •1 t Mixed spice (see note*)
• •4 ts Marmalade
• •1 c (heaping)superfine sugar
• •2 1/2 c Self-rising flour

Directions

1. 1Place dried fruit in a bowl, cover with the hot tea
2. 2and let soak overnight. The next day, add the
3. 3remaining ingreds. and mix well. Preheat oven to 375
4. 4F. Pour batten into greased 7" square pan and bake in
5. 5the center of oven for 1 1/2 hrs. Let cool in the pan
6. 6on awire rack. Slice and serve buttered with tea.
7. 7NOTE* (Mixed spices: equal parts of cinnamon,
8. 8clove, nutmeg, allspice, and mace.
9. 9In Northern Ireland and in the Republic, BRACK
10. 10is the Celtic word for salt and is used to mean
11. 11"bread". Barm brack is leavened bread, the word BARM
12. 12meaning yeast.
13. 13The term "barmbrack" for an Irish fruit loaf or
14. 14cake does not derive from barm or leaven. It is a
15. 15corruption of the Irish word "aran breac" (Speckled
16. 16Bread).