Monday 30 April 2012

My Gran's currant loaf


I am not the best cook in the world but whenever I cook my gran's currant loaf I am always asked for the recipe... so here it is. My 97 year old grandmother got this recipe out of a women's magazine in the 1950s, she has been cooking it ever since!

This currant loaf recipe was one of the first things I cooked with my kids. It has very few steps so they get the joy of mixing and I don't stress with a long list of ingredients and processes.

Ingredients:
1 generous cup of cold tea
1 cup of currants
1 cup of caster sugar (you can reduce this by a quarter to a half if you want a low sugar version)
2 cups of self raising flour
Pinch of salt


Combine the tea, currants and sugar in a bowl. Cover and leave for at least 2 hours or preferably overnight.

Line a loaf tin with baking paper. In a large bowl, combine the flour and salt. Slowly add the tea/currant mixture while stirring to avoid lumps. If a child is helping I find the whole lot is added in a fast gush..... so the mixture will need extra stirring to get rid of lumps.

Pour cake/loaf mixture into your prepared tin and bake at 180 degrees C (356F) for 50 minutes.

When cooled, slice and serve with butter.

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7 comments:

  1. That sounds great Ali. Love the addition of tea! So frugal

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    1. Thanks, My gran was born in the depression so she is very good at being frugal. She would never make a cup of tea just to make this recipe (like I do) – she would use the dregs from the teapot. :)

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  2. Yum, that looks delicious! I'm going to try this tomorrow, I have never seen a recipe using tea!

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    1. I hope you like it. Love for you to come back and tell me how it went.

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    2. Hi Ali, I have this recipe on a piece of paper that was my grandmothers. She has written on it Currant Loaf Recipe wins 5 pound. Sounds like this may be where she won it. My mum would have been 104 this year, so gran about 30 years older. I made the cake last night but overcooked it. It was still beautiful just crusty around the edges.

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  3. Ohh, love the idea of using the dregs of your tea for your cake! Such a great idea. I wonder if chai tea dregs would work well too? Will have to give this a go :-)

    And thanks so much for sharing on Happy lil ❤'s are baking Ali x

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    1. I don't know whether chai would work - but definitely worth a go.

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