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Barm Brack (Traditional Irish Bread - Báirín breac)

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Recipe

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

 

Yield

6 servings

Prep

20 min

Cook

90 min

Ready

1 days
Low Fat, Low in Saturated Fat, Trans-fat Free, Good source of fiber

Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
2 ½ cups mixed dried fruit
currants, and golden raisins
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1 cup tea
boiling black
1 each eggs
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1 teaspoon mixed spice
(see note*)
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4 teaspoons orange marmalade
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1 cup sugar
superfine, heaping
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2 ½ cups self-rising flour
self-rising

Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
591 ml mixed dried fruit
currants, and golden raisins
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237 ml tea
boiling black
1 each eggs
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5 ml mixed spice
(see note*)
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2E+1 ml orange marmalade
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237 ml sugar
superfine, heaping
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591 ml self-rising flour
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℉ (190℃). Pour batten into greased 7" square pan and bake in the center of oven for 1½ 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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Comments


Iain Mac E

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

sf

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

 

 

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 137g (4.8 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 4233% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 1g 2%
Saturated Fat 0g 2%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 31mg 10%
Sodium 680mg 28%
Total Carbohydrate 33g 33%
Dietary Fiber 4g 17%
Sugars g
Protein 15g
Vitamin A 27% Vitamin C 1%
Calcium 20% Iron 20%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
 

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