Bara Brith
Bara Brith

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, bara brith. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Bara Brith is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Bara Brith is something which I have loved my whole life.

This is not the traditional recipe for bara brith, meaning 'speckled bread' as the original recipe was based on a yeasted bread. However this version which is widely served, makes a beautifully moist cake as the dried fruit are soaked overnight in tea. Bara brith (literally "mottled bread") is sometimes made with yeast but Mary's family recipe omits it, giving a wonderfully sticky texture. It is best spread with plenty of butter.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook bara brith using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Bara Brith:
  1. Prepare 300 ml strong hot black tea (made using 3 tea bags)
  2. Take 250 g mixed fruit
  3. Make ready 170 g brown sugar
  4. Make ready 225 g self-raising flour
  5. Get 1 1/2 tsp mixed spice
  6. Take 1 egg

How To Make Bara Brith Bara Brith originates like myself from Wales. Traditionally eaten as a snack with tea/coffee. I prefer it to normal fruit cakes. Bara Brith is a Welsh fruit loaf which is traditionally flavoured by adding tea, dried fruits and mixed spices.

Steps to make Bara Brith:
  1. The night before baking mix the sugar and fruit in a bowl, pour over the tea and stir to dissolve the sugar. Leave the fruit to soak overnight.
  2. Grease a 2lb loaf tin. Preheat the oven to 170 C fan.
  3. Add the flour to a large bowl with a pinch of salt, add the egg and mix, then slowly add the soaked fruit and tea a little at a time, until a thick batter is formed. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin.
  4. Place into the preheated oven and cook for 40-50 minutes. A knife inserted should come out clean. Leave to cool slightly in the tin, then turn out and allow to cool completely on a cooling rack.

I prefer it to normal fruit cakes. Bara Brith is a Welsh fruit loaf which is traditionally flavoured by adding tea, dried fruits and mixed spices. It is usually served sliced with lots of butter. Bara Brith literally means "speckled bread" in the Welsh language and it gets its name because of the dried fruit which speckles the bread. Bara Brith is a rich fruit loaf made with tea and mixed spices and is delicious when spread with salted Welsh butter.

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