Barm Brack

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untested: looks like a very dry bread - no shortening! just the egg

 

 

* Exported from MasterCook *

 

Barm Brack (spicy currant bread)

 

Recipe By :Liz Waters 1991

Serving Size : 9 Preparation Time :0:00

Categories : Breads

 

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

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2 1/2 cups mixed dry fruit

such as currants, dark and golden raisins

1 cup boiling black tea

1 egg

1 teaspoon mixed spice

equal amounts of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, allspice, and

mace

4 teaspoons orange marmalade

1 cup (heaping) superfine granulated sugar

2 1/2 cups self-rising flour

SELF-RISING FLOUR (2.5-cups):

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder -- plus

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1 1/4 teaspoons salt

--King Arthur Baking Book

 

Place the dried fruit in a bowl, cover with the hot tea and let soak overnight.

 

The next day, add the remaining ingredients and mix well.

 

Preheat the oven to 375F.

 

Pour the batter into a greased 7- or 8-inch square pan and bake in the center of

the oven for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours. Let cool in the pan on a wire rack. Slice and

serve buttered with tea.

 

Description:

" Scone. Allow time to plump raisins (overnight). "

Cuisine:

" Irish "

Source:

" http://www.masterstech-home.com/The_Kitchen/Recipes/International_Recipes/Irish\

_Recipes/IrishCooksHeritageRecipes.html "

S(eRecipes):

" Hanneman (kitpath) on 17-Mar-2001 "

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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 359 Calories; 1g Fat (2.5% calories from

fat); 6g Protein; 85g Carbohydrate; 3g Dietary Fiber; 21mg Cholesterol; 518mg

Sodium. Exchanges: 1 1/2 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 2 Fruit; 0 Fat; 2 Other

Carbohydrates.

 

NOTES : I have TWO derivations of this name and have NO idea which is correct:

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). IF anyone can straighten out which definition is correct,

please let me know. I also read that the Irish traditionally serve barmbrak at

Halloween with the ring, silver coin and a button baked inside (the button

signifying " single blessedness " whatever that might be). Frankly, I doubt all of

these " bake it inside " stories...if they were true, Irish dentists would ALWAYS

be busy on the day after Halloween, because a lot of Irish folk would have

broken teeth after having coins and rings stuck in every item on the table! - LW

 

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