Recipe - Barm Brack (Traditional Irish Bread)

2 One half cup Mixed dry fruitcurrants
Dark & golden raisins.
1 cup Boiling black tea
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Mixed spice (see note*)
4 teaspoon Marmalade
1 cup (heaping)superfine sugar
2 One half cup Selfrising flour

Place dried fruit in a bowl, cover with the hot tea and let soak
overnight. The next day, add the remaining ingreds. and mix well. Preheat
oven to 375 F. Pour batten into greased 7" square pan and bake in the
center of oven for 1 One half hrs. Let cool in the pan on awire rack. Slice and
serve buttered with tea.

NOTE* (Mixed spices: equal parts of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, allspice,
and mace.

1. In Northern Ireland and in the Republic, BRACK is the Celtic word
for salt and is used to mean "bread". Barm brack is leavened bread, the
word BARM meaning yeast.

2. The term "barmbrack" for an Irish fruit loaf or cake does not derive
from barm or leaven. It is a corruption of the Irish word "aran breac"
(Speckled Bread).

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