Celebrate Halloween with this Fruity Barmbrack Recipe!

Barmbrack Recipe also often shortened to brack, is a quick bread with added sultanas and raisins.
The bread is associated with Halloween 👻🎃 in Ireland, where a ring is placed inside the bread, with the person who receives it considered to be fortunate

Barmbrack is the centre of an Irish Halloween custom. You might use birds or animals to adorn the top of these loaves. Traditionally, the Halloween Brack served as a kind of fortune-telling game and included a variety of things baked into the bread.

Make your own Barmbrack with this simply, fruity recipe!

Ingredients:
110g sultanas
110g raisins
110g currents
20g mixed peel
2-3 tablespoons milk

150ml freshly brewed tea
(Earl Grey is nice to add some citrus flavour!)
50g soft brown sugar
1 large egg
225g self raising flour

Method:

- Put all fruit into a bowl, brew your tea and dissolve sugar
in the tea. Pour 150mls over the fruit and mix well. Leave to
absorb overnight covered with a towel
- Pre-heat oven to 180°C
- Butter a 1lb loaf tin and line the base with parchment paper
- Mix 1 egg into your fruit mix
- Slowly sieve flour in, stirring all the time
- Add 2 tablespoons of milk and if the mixture still feels
stiff put an extra 3rd spoon of milk in
- Pour the mixture into your prepared loaf tin
- Cook for 1 hour in the centre of the oven
- Once cooked, turn on top a wire rack

This very fruity barmbrack keeps very well in an airtight tin but is also delicious toasted with butter