Nanna’s mixed fruit loaf
Nanna’s mixed fruit loaf

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, nanna’s mixed fruit loaf. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

A revised version of the banana loaf with plenty of added spices and best made with those over-ripe bruised bananas you're always afraid to eat left in the fruit bowl! Delicious Banana loaf with added extra yummy treats running through with the mixed fruit and dark chocolate chunks. Follow this easy recipe, mix it up and.

Nanna’s mixed fruit loaf is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Nanna’s mixed fruit loaf is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nanna’s mixed fruit loaf using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Nanna’s mixed fruit loaf:
  1. Take 8 oz dried mixed fruit. You can use any but for this recipe, I have chosen sultanas, raisins and cranberries. Chopped glazed cherries work well too!
  2. Prepare 4 oz butter
  3. Make ready 6 oz sugar
  4. Take 2 eggs
  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp almond essence
  6. Get 6 oz self raising flour
  7. Make ready Pinch salt
  8. Take Almond flakes

Unless we are very careful with the instant yeast quantity. The girls tried my nana's nut loaf for the first time on our working retreat in Byron Bay. We spent four days locked away from all distraction, madly Pour the cooled date mixture onto the dry ingredients and mix well with a wooden spoon. This tea loaf is full of semi-dried fruit and is virtually fat free - better still, it is so lovely and moist you don't need any butter or cream to go with it.

Instructions to make Nanna’s mixed fruit loaf:
  1. Night before, cover your fruit in cold water and leave them overnight
  2. The next day, pre heat the oven to 180 degrees C (gas mark 4)
  3. Put the water and fruit into a saucepan and bring to the boil
  4. Once boiled, strain off the water
  5. Whilst the fruit is still hot, put the fruit back into the pan and take it off the heat. Add the butter, sugar and mix until melted
  6. Add the eggs, almond essence and flour and mix together
  7. Butter the loaf tin and add a lining at the bottom with wax paper
  8. Add the cake mixture to the tin
  9. Add a few flaked almonds on the top of the mixture
  10. Bake for 30 minutes on 180 degrees Celsius and then lower the heat to 150 for another 30 minutes
  11. Test with a skewer and if it comes out clean, the cake it ready and should be a nice golden brown on top
  12. Enjoy with either hot/cold with/without a thin layer of butter AND a good cup of tea!

Using a pair of scissors, cut the mixed fruit medley into small, sultana-sized pieces and place in a large bowl. Pour the hot tea over, then discard the tea bag. An easy to make fruit loaf using sultanas or a mixture of dried fruits. This is a loaf with plenty of fruit and light in color. Very easy recipe unfortunately I didn't have the raisins or the almonds so baked with double the fruit mix.

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