Irish sweet bread barmbrack
10 servings
60 minutes
On Halloween in Ireland they bake barmbrack - sweet yeast bread. Small objects are hidden in it - wood chips, peas, coins: whatever is found, that is what awaits the person. The most long-awaited were rings - for a wedding, so barm breaks are still sold with small rings inside. Such bread is good not only as a ritual entertainment, but also as a sweet for tea. It is recommended to eat it with butter. This pastry is very Irish: raisins for barmbrack are soaked in black tea and whiskey, and as a result the dough becomes dark, dense and aromatic.
1
Prepare the necessary ingredients.
2
Add whiskey to the raisins.
- Golden raisins: 200 g
- Dark raisins: 200 g
- Whisky: 50 ml
3
Pour raisins and whiskey with hot black tea, let it soak for at least 6 hours.
- Black tea: 250 ml
4
In a separate bowl, mix the sifted flour and baking powder.
5
Add cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Cinnamon: 0.5 teaspoon
- Nutmeg: to taste
6
Add sugar, salt.
- Muscovado sugar: 150 g
- Salt: 0.5 teaspoon
7
Then add the egg.
- Chicken egg: 1 piece
8
Add soaked raisins along with the tea.
- Golden raisins: 200 g
- Dark raisins: 200 g
- Black tea: 250 ml
9
Mix well and transfer the dough to a greased pan. Send it to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for one and a half hours.
10
Serve with tea by spreading butter on a slice of barnbrack.