Lazy Days Beetroot & Raisin Tea Bread
Author: The Knobbly Plate
Recipe type: Bread
Cuisine: Baking
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Serves: 6 persons
- 200g Light Muscova Sugar
- 4 Large Eggs, Separated
- 200g Finely grated beetroot
- Zest and Juice of a Lemon
- 100g Raisins
- 100g Ground Almonds
- 200g Self Raising Flour
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Grated Nutmeg
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 3 and lightly grease a loaf tin. Then line with baking parchment.
- Using a whisk beat together the egg yolks and sugar until soft and fluffy.
- Stir in the beetroot, ground almonds,lemon zest and juice and the raisins.
- Sift in the flours and spices and fold in gently.
- Whisk the egg whites to soft peaks and slowly fold into the cake mixture.
- Pour into the loaf tin and bake for around an hour until you can insert a skewer and it comes out clean.
- Allow to rest for 10 mins in tin before removing to cool.
Recipe by The Knobbly Plate at http://theknobblyplate.co.uk/?p=26
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