Barm Brack (Traditional Irish Bread - Báirín breac)

A recipe for a traditional Irish bread. Barm Brack (Traditional Irish Bread - Báirín breac) One translation would be Speckled Bread.

1 day Prep: 20 minutes Cook: 90 minutes

2540 calories per serving view nutrition facts

6 servings suggest servings

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Ingredients

2 1/2	cups	mixed dried fruit	currants, and golden raisins
1	cup	tea	boiling black
1	each	egg
1	teaspoon	mixed spice	(see note*)
4	teaspoons	orange marmalade
1	cup	sugar	superfine, heaping
2 1/2	cups	flour, self-rising	self-rising

Directions

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 1/2 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).

2 comments

1. Iain Mac E Moscow, Russia about 1 month ago

"Báirín" is the Irish for loaf, and "breac" is the Irish for "speckled", and that is why the loaf is so called.

2. sf ny 27 days ago

my husband irish breed and born said that there is a secret ring found inside and whomever gets that slice is going to get married

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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 137g

Amount per Serving

Calories 2540 3% of calories from fat

	% Daily Value*
Total Fat 9.0g	13%
Saturated Fat 2.0g	9%
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 186mg	62%
Sodium 4077mg	170%
Total Carbohydrate 589.0g	196%
Dietary Fiber 25.0g	100%
Sugars 339.0g
Protein 44.0g	88%