what you need is a slice of this...
And I've finally found a tea loaf recipe which contains 'normal' ingredients, tastes delicious and is gluten free:
Ingredients:
- 175g dried mixed fruit (I added dates, apricots and cranberries to a basic 'dried fruit' mix)
- 150ml hot, strong black tea
- 200g Gluten-free self-raising flour
- 50g ground almonds
- 100g light soft brown sugar
- 1tbsp golden syrup, melted
- 50g chopped mixed nuts
- Finely grated zest of orange
- 1 level tsp ground mixed spice
- 2 medium eggs
- 2tbs sunflower oil
- 150ml milk
- 500g loaf tin, buttered or lined with baking parchment
- Butter to serve (optional)
- Place the fruit in a bowl and pour the hot tea over. Cover the bowl and leave overnight for the fruit to absorb some of the tea.
- Set oven to gas 3 or 160C
- Tip the flour into a bowl and stir in ground almonds, sugar, nuts, orange zest and mixed spice
- Add the syrup, egg and sunflower oil to the fruit mixture and tip this into the dry ingredients. Stir well adding enough milk to make a soft dropping consistency.
- Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and level the surface. Place the tin in the centre of the oven.
- Bake the cake for about 1 hour or until it has risen and feels firm to the touch in the centre.
- Remove the cake from the oven and leave it to cool in the tin for about 10 mins. Turn it out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- If required the cake will freeze for 1 month (Ha! Colin will be lucky to see it let alone freeze it!)
Then sit back in front of the fire and enjoy!!
