Barm Brack

This is similar to the recipe my Irish Mum used. The Irish version is barm brack which is the anglicised translation of the Irish words bairin breac meaning speckled loaf.

www.food.com/recipe/irish-barm-brack-fruit-loaf-20918

Barm Brack has Irish roots whereas Bara Brith is Welsh.

Bara Brith means speckled bread apparently.

Witzend do you mean Bara Brith it's a Welsh fruit loaf . I will look and see if I have a recipe for it. But I do have a very good fatless fruit loaf recipe that was my mom's . Will post it later plus the Bara Brith recipe when I find it.

My Irish Mum used to make a special Halloween one with hidden lucky trinkets baked into it eg a ring and a sixpence. After the initial excitement of finding the trinkets they were usually left aside and she’d wash them and reuse next year. Unless of course you found the coveted sixpence. That went in the lucky finder’s piggy bank.

I had this served with a slice of cheese a few tears ago in Yorkshire. I was assured that earing both together was the way to go. It was delicious. I have made it many times since.

My recipe has whiskey in!

Even moreish hope you enjoy it I know I would!

It’s like Bara Brith a Welsh tea bread totally moorish.

I don’t eat breakfast but I have either tea or banana bread when I start to feel hungry (try to do an overnight fast and push out the time that I eat for as long as possible; makes it easier if I know I don’t have to prepare anything to break the fast). I add glacé cherries, dried blueberries, powdered beetroot and glacé cherries to my tea bread. Think I throw in some chopped walnuts as well ( haven’t made it for a while as I always seem to have a lot of old bananas to use up). I’ve always measured the tea bread ingredients using cups but for some reason weighed the flour for banana bread until I had a light bulb moment and, after weighing the flour worked out how many cups 8 oz was. I might be kidding myself but, made with wholemeal flour I think it’s quite healthy. And, of course, the tea bread doesn’t have fat in it and I reduce the sugar content slightly.

Does it have to have yeast in it?

Or is it similar to Bara Brith?

Never heard of this is it a northern recipe ?

I call this 'cold tea loaf' and have made it for years, always popular. I add 8ozs died fruit and 4 ozs sugar to the tea then in the morning I add a beaten egg and some SF flour till it looks 'right' (I think about 8ozs) and bake in a greased loaf tin. Fat less recipe though I do butter the slices! I think this is similar to Barm Brack?

Never heard of it, is it a fruit loaf Witzend?