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Ingredients
- 10 ounces all-purpose flour
- 12 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 3 tablespoons caster sugar
- 4 ounces dried fruit
- 1 egg, beaten
- 7 fluid ounces buttermilk (3/4 Tblsp cream of tartar mixed in 7 fl.oz. milk makes buttermilk)
Method
- Preheat oven 190 degrees Celsius, gas 5.
- Grease a 2 lb loaf tin.
- Sift into a large bowl the flour, salt and bicarbonate of soda.
- Stir in the caster sugar.
- Make a well in the centre and add the dried fruit, egg and buttermilk.
- Mix lightly and quickly into the flour for a soft dough.
- Using floured hands remove dough and knead very briefly.
- Press into prepared tin.
- Bake 35 to 40 minutes until top is a dark golden and loaf feels firm.
- Turn out to cool.
