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Fruit bread

Gioconda Scott from Gioconda Scott's Paradise Kitchen
Dried apricots and raisins add a delicious chewy sweetness to Gioconda Scott's simple but moreish fruit bread

Fruit bread

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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Serves: Makes 1 loaf

Prep: 15 min, plus 10 mins resting
Cook: 1 hr

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 orange