Fruit bread
By: Gioconda Scott From: Gioconda Scott's Paradise Kitchen
- Prep time:
- 15 mins, plus 10 mins resting
- Cook time:
- 1 hr
- Serves:
- Makes 1 loaf
Dried apricots and raisins add a delicious chewy sweetness to Gioconda Scott's simple but moreish fruit bread
Tips and suggestions
- Eat with...
- Chocolate Tart with Chocolate Sorbet
Ingredients
- 50g bran
- 200g brown sugar
- 110g raisins
- 60g Dried apricots, chopped
- 250ml Milk
- 165g wholemeal flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- grated zest of 1 Oranges
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4.2. In a mixing bowl mix together the bran, brown sugar, raisins and apricots.
3. Pour in the milk, stir vigorously and set aside to soak for 10 minutes.
4. In a separate bowl, mix together the wholewheat flour and baking powder.
5. Stir the orange zest into the bran mixture.
6. Fold the flour mixture into the bran mixture.
7. Turn the mixture into a 900g greased, base-lined loaf tin.
8. Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour until cooked through.
9. Remove and cool on a wire rack.
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