Bara Brith

• 450g/1lb dried mixed fruit
• 250g/9oz brown sugar
• 300ml/½ pint warm black tea
• 2 tsp mixed spice
• 450g/1lb self-raising flour
• 1 free-range egg, beaten

In a large bowl soak the fruit and sugar in strained tea and leave overnight.

Next day preheat the oven to 170C/325F/Gas 3. Line a 900g/2lb loaf tin with baking parchment.

Mix the remaining ingredients into the fruit mixture and beat well.

Pour the mixture into the loaf tin and bake the oven and bake for 1½ hours or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.

VERDICT:  This seemed easy until I realized I had to make my own mixed fruit (raisins, currents, golden raisins and some crystallized ginger), mixed spice (cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves and ginger), and self-raising flour (1 c. flour+1.5 tsp. baking powder+1/2 tsp. salt) and that the fruit needed to soak overnight.  Also, the batter did not all fit in the loaf pan--perhaps it's not a 2lb. loaf tin?  Once I got past all that, it was smooth sailing and turned out well enough.  Keep in mind, but perhaps tinker with the recipe(s) a bit.  From BBC Food.