Apple and Spice Tea Loaf

Ingredients:
175g butter
175g light muscovado sugar
3 large eggs
1 eating apple, half grated / half sliced thinly
1 tsp vanilla extract
200g mixed dried fruit
85g ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder
175g plain flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
Lemon or orange juice
1 tbsp apricot jam

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 160C and line a 2lb loaf tin.
2. Beat together butter and sugar, then beat in eggs and add the grated apple, vanilla, dried fruit and ground almonds.
3. Mix the baking powder, flour and spices together with a pinch of salt - fold into the fruit mix.
4. Spoon mix into the tin, top with thinly sliced apple tossed in lemon or orange juice, and sprinkle with a teaspoon of sugar.
5. Bake for 45 minutes - then cover with foil, turn oven temperature down and cook for a further 45 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.  Glaze with apricot jam.
6. Serve sliced with butter - can be frozen for up to a month.

Status
Untried