Gourmet Recipes

Ingredients 225g luxury dried fruit 50g glace cherries, halved 50g ready to eat dried apricots, roughly chopped 100g soft brown sugar 4tbsp Drink Me Spiced Chai 100ml boiling water 25g blanched almonds, chopped 225g self raising fl our 3 large eggs, beaten Method In a bowl combine the dried fruit, cherries, apricots, and sugar. In a jug mix the Spiced Chai with a little of the boiling water to dissolve it then stir in the remainder of the boiling water. Pour the Spiced Chai mixture over the fruit mix, stir thoroughly then cover and leave for 2 hours. Preheat the oven to 160c/325f/gas mark 3 and line a 900g (2lb) loaf tin. In a clean bowl combine the almonds and flour. Then make a well in the centre and stir in the fruit and Spiced Chai mixture. Add the beaten eggs and stir until well mixed. Spoon the mixture into the loaf tin and smooth over the surface. Cook on the middle shelf in the preheated oven for 35-40 minutes or until well risen and golden (and a skewer when inserted into the ...

Serve this delicious bread with cheese and soups or use it to turn beans on toast into a gourmet experience. * For best results use Traditional Dried Active Yeast if making the loaf in a bread maker and Fast Action Dried Yeast if making by hand. Ingredients 1 medium onion, finely chopped 2 rashers smoked back bacon 1 1/2tsp/7.5mlsp dried yeast* 6floz/175ml water 1tsp/5ml sugar 6oz/175g strong brown flour 41/2oz/125g strong white flour 3oz/75g Munchy Seeds Chilli Mix (or another Mix if you prefer) To bake in a bread maker Trim the rind and fat from the bacon keeping it in one long strip, chop the bacon. Put the fatty rinds into a pan with the onions. Cover and cook over a very low heat for 5 minutes. Discard the rinds, and add the chopped bacon. Cover and cook for 5 minutes. Leave to cool. Meanwhile stir the yeast, water and sugar together. Leave for 10 minutes. Put all ingredients into the bread maker and set to mix and cook a 1.5lb/675g loaf immediately (do not use the delay facility...