Authentic Bara Brith Recipe Wales, Europe

This spiced tea loaf can be prepared in two different ways. The more traditional version uses leavened dough, but as the dough needs time to rise, the unleavened cake version is much more common. Recipes for bara brith tend to not differ much, except in the type of flour they use, and each recipe can be adapted to suit personal tastes. The cake version is usually made with self-rising flour instead of all-purpose flour, but every other ingredient besides the dried fruit, eggs, and brown sugar is optional. The dark tea that is often included in recipes is used to rehydrate the dried fruit overnight and to provide moisture to the cake, although recipes that include no tea get their moisture from milk and water. Other typical ingredients include butter and lard, molasses, spices, honey, marmalade, fruit juice, candied fruit peel, and salt. Whiskey can also be added, if desired. Once baked, the cake version is typically glazed with honey, but both types of bara brith are thickly sliced ... Read more