Irish Tea Cake

This can feed 12 hungry people after a football match, country walk or just with midnight munchies. It is low in fat & very tasty.

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Ingredients

1 pint of strong fair trade tea

200g of Tropical Wholefoods chewy banana chips

125g cranberries or raisins

200g of dates or Tropical Wholefods bogoya bananas

160g demerera sugar

125g chopped walnuts

1 large egg beaten into 2 tbsp of milk

450g self raising flour

Method

Soak dried fruit for 90min in well brewed tea. Line roasting tin of 28x23cm (or half of this size) with baking paper & grease the paper with vegetable oil. Mash up soaked fruit with a fork, then stir in remaining ingredients. Spread mixture in roasting tin(s). Bake in the centre of preheated oven at 170° for about 60 mins until golden brown on top & springy to touch in centre. Straight away turn onto a wire rack.

As soon as cool, serve in slices. It is particularly nice thickly spread with butter.