Er, it's not really bread, more a sort of tea-time cake. Probably best with something other than coffee, though it works well as a dessert with ice-cream.
50g light muscovado or demerera sugar 25g rolled oats 30ml apple or pear juice or squash (I've even used orange and it works fine) 1 large or 2 small pears (I've also used 2-3 plums in this, though it takes longer to cook) 115g self-raising flour 115g sultanas 2 teaspoons mixed spice 1 egg
You need a 1lb loaf tin, lined with greaseproof paper (or whatever you do to make sure it doesn't stick). Preheat oven to gas mark 5 (190 degrees celsius) mix the sugar, oats and juice together and leave to stand while you prepare the rest. Chop up the pears (or whatever) fairly finely (my cookbook suggests grating them, but I find this just leaves a hideous mess all over the kitchen). Then add the fruit and all the rest of the ingredients to the sugar-oats mixture, and mix it in thouroughly. Pour/scrape mixture into loaf tin, bake for 50 minutes, or until skewers start to come out clean. (It'll take over 1hr for a plum cake. Also, skewers needn't come out perfectly clean; it's very nice when slightly squishy in the middle). And you can eat it warm or cold. Yum.
Pear and Sultana tea bread
50g light muscovado or demerera sugar
25g rolled oats
30ml apple or pear juice or squash (I've even used orange and it works fine)
1 large or 2 small pears (I've also used 2-3 plums in this, though it takes longer to cook)
115g self-raising flour
115g sultanas
2 teaspoons mixed spice
1 egg
You need a 1lb loaf tin, lined with greaseproof paper (or whatever you do to make sure it doesn't stick). Preheat oven to gas mark 5 (190 degrees celsius)
mix the sugar, oats and juice together and leave to stand while you prepare the rest. Chop up the pears (or whatever) fairly finely (my cookbook suggests grating them, but I find this just leaves a hideous mess all over the kitchen). Then add the fruit and all the rest of the ingredients to the sugar-oats mixture, and mix it in thouroughly. Pour/scrape mixture into loaf tin, bake for 50 minutes, or until skewers start to come out clean. (It'll take over 1hr for a plum cake. Also, skewers needn't come out perfectly clean; it's very nice when slightly squishy in the middle). And you can eat it warm or cold. Yum.