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Tea loaf

Tea loaf

This classic tea loaf is really tasty, moist and so easy to make. Best served sliced and buttered with a cup of Typhoo tea.

What you need:

What you do:

  1. Make the tea and pour over the fruit and sugar. Leave to soak overnight (or longer if you like a stronger tea flavour).
  2. After the fruit and sugar has soaked in the tea, mix the fl our and beaten eggs with the fruit and sugar.
  3. Cook in a greased 2lb loaf tin in a pre-heated oven at 150°C (300°F, Gas Mark 2) for 1.5 hours. Cool on a wire rack and serve sliced with butter.

Help Typhoo Tea raise valuable funds for the English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) by holding your very own Tea & Toast Morning for friends and family. Visit www.teaandtoastmorning.co.uk for further details. The EFDS works to make sport more accessible for disabled people across the UK.

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Typhoo Tea

Typhoo Tea

Typhoo Tea Limited has a long and rich heritage, stretching back to 1903. Today, Typhoo strives to be a good honest tea brand and is a supporter of the English Federation of Disability Sport which works to make sport accessible for disabled people. By simply buying a pack of Typhoo Tea, money will be donated to the EFDS, the perfect excuse for a cuppa!

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