Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, apricot loaf. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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In a small bowl, combine sultanas, apricots, orange rind and orange juice. Combine sugar, dates, apricots, butter and bicarbonate of soda in a medium saucepan. Stir liquid mixture and apricot into dry mixture.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook apricot loaf using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Apricot Loaf:
- Take 130 g butter
- Make ready 85 g caster sugar
- Get 85 g ground almonds
- Make ready 200 g plain flour
- Make ready 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Get 2 eggs plus 1 extra egg white
- Prepare 1 tbs milk
- Get 85 g chopped apricots
- Make ready Brandy for soaking apricots in
Beat sugar, egg, and vanilla into apricot mixture. Sift flour and baking powder into wet mixture, stirring just to combine. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt; mix well. Stir in butter, milk, orange juice, and egg; mix well.
Steps to make Apricot Loaf:
- Start by chopping the preserved apricots and pouring a little brandy on them to soften. Leave to soak for an hour. Line a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment.
- When ready to start, pre-heat the oven to 160 degrees, then begin by creaming the butter and sugar. Then add the dry ingredients plus the whole egg and beat until smooth. Next add the apricots and milk. The mixture will be quite stiff at this point.
- Next take the 2 additional eggs and separate the whites into a bowl. Add one of the yolks to the mixture and blend it in. Discard or find another use for the other yolk. Whisk the 2 egg whites on a high speed setting using a fresh whisk (do not contaminate with the dough) until peaks form. Using a spatula stir the egg foam through the mixture until blended and it is a slacker consistency. Add it to the tin.
- Finally put into a medium oven at 160 degrees centrigrade and bake for 45 minutes to an hour. Test with a skewer to ensure it is baked through. Once cooked remove from the tin and allow to cool on a rack.
- Once cool this cake can be served as it is or sliced through and spread with apricot jam and butter icing/ iced on the top or both.
Fold in dried apricots, nuts, and orange peel. Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy. The smart cooking sidekick that learns what you like and customizes the experience to your personal tastes, nutritional needs, skill level, and more. Apricot loaf is just the perfect thing with a cup of tea on a cold day! The smell of it baking fills the kitchen.
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