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Barmbrack

Name: Barmbrack
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Ireland
Ingredients: 200g Raisins; 80g Dried Apricots; 300ml (strong) Black Tea; 100g Brown sugar; 250g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; A pinch Nutmeg; 1 Egg; To taste Butter

Dessert

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

A fruit bread packed with dried fruit soaked in tea — essential to Irish Halloween.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Barmbrack is a sweet bread with dried fruit, a traditional Irish Halloween bake. A ring, coin, and other items are baked inside, and whatever you find in your slice foretells your fortune for the coming year. Its hallmark is dried fruit soaked overnight in tea; it's sliced, buttered, and eaten with tea.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On Halloween night, the family gathers by the fire to slice the barmbrack and cheers to see whose piece holds the ring.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Raisins 200g
Dried Apricots 80g
Black Tea 300ml (strong)
Brown sugar 100g
All-purpose flour 250g
Baking Powder 2 tsp
Cinnamon powder 1 tsp
Nutmeg A pinch
Egg 1
Butter To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the raisins, chopped dried apricots, and dark sugar in hot tea overnight.
Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Add the fruit with its tea and the beaten egg and fold together.
Pour into a loaf pan (add a ring or coin wrapped in paper if you like).
Bake at 170°C for 50–60 minutes.
Cool, slice, and butter.

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