My first recipe for the New Yr! Comfortable New Yr to all my readers! And, it’s a superb tea time cake recipe for Cranberry, Mincemeat & Ginger Tea Loaf
A Easy Twelfth Night time Cake utilizing Festive Leftovers
My first recipe for the New Yr! Comfortable New Yr to all my readers! And, it’s a superb tea time cake recipe for Cranberry, Mincemeat & Ginger Tea Loaf.
A superbly moist, tea loaf that’s warmly spiced with ginger, and is studded with plump, recent cranberries, in addition to do-it-yourself mincemeat.
At this time’s recipe was created with leftover cranberries and mincemeat from Christmas……though, there’s no such factor as leftover mincemeat in our home, as all of us adore it twelve months a 12 months!
I added floor ginger for a contact of fragrant heat – plus it actually marries effectively with the opposite elements.
A tea loaf is a cake. or ought to say a bake, that I make frequently. It’s excellent with a day cuppa, and slices simply.
This Cranberry, Mincemeat & Ginger Tea Loaf will maintain recent in an hermetic tin for at the very least per week. Serve it for a Sunday Tea Tray Supper, for elevenses, or for afternoon tea.
In case you don’t have any recent cranberries, add chopped dried apricots, sultanas or glace cherries.
Walnuts (or pecans) would additionally add a scrumptious nuttiness and texture to this tea loaf. And, I can verify that cheese is DELICIOUS when served with it, much like Christmas cake.
I hope you take pleasure in my first recipe of the New Yr, as a lot as we did once I made this – I’ve tons extra new recipes up my sleeve, so pleaae do maintain popping again to see what I’m making and baking.
Comfortable New Yr – could 2024 be sort to you, Karen
Tea Loaf Recipes
Recipe for Cranberry, Mincemeat & Ginger Tea Loaf
Cranberry, Mincemeat & Ginger Tea Loaf
Yield:
12 slices
Prep Time:
20 minutes
Prepare dinner Time:
1 hour
Whole Time:
1 hour 20 minutes
My first recipe for the New Yr! Comfortable New Yr to all my readers! And, it is a fabulous tea time cake recipe for Cranberry, Mincemeat & Ginger Tea Loaf.
A superbly moist, tea loaf that’s warmly spiced with ginger, and is studded with plump, recent cranberries, in addition to do-it-yourself mincemeat.
At this time’s recipe was created with leftover cranberries and mincemeat from Christmas……though, there is no such factor as leftover mincemeat in our home, as all of us adore it twelve months a 12 months!
I added floor ginger for a contact of fragrant heat – plus it actually marries effectively with the opposite elements.
A tea loaf is a cake. or ought to say a bake, that I make frequently. It is excellent with a day cuppa, and slices simply.
This Cranberry, Mincemeat & Ginger Tea Loaf will maintain recent in an hermetic tin for at the very least per week. Serve it for a Sunday Tea Tray Supper, for elevenses, or for afternoon tea.
If you have no recent cranberries, add chopped dried apricots, sultanas or glace cherries.
Walnuts (or pecans) would additionally add a scrumptious nuttiness and texture to this tea loaf. And, I can verify that cheese is DELICIOUS when served with it, much like Christmas cake.
I hope you take pleasure in my first recipe of the New Yr, as a lot as we did once I made this – I’ve tons extra new recipes up my sleeve, so pleaae do maintain popping again to see what I am making and baking.
Comfortable New Yr – could 2024 be sort to you, Karen
Components
- 300g (12oz) SR Flour
- 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 100g (4oz) margarine or butter
- 100g (4oz) darkish tender brown sugar
- 125g (5oz) mincemeat (do-it-yourself is finest)
- 1 massive egg, crushed
- 3 x 15ml spoons (3 tablespoons) milk
- 80g (3oz) entire recent cranberries
Directions
1. Combine flour and bicarbonate of soda collectively. Rub within the margarine or butter then stir within the sugar.
2. Combine within the mincemeat, egg and milk to kind a dough.
3. Add the cranberries and blend effectively.
4. Spoon the combination right into a effectively greased and lined 900g (2lb) loaf tin.
5. Bake for about 1hr at 160C/325F/Gasoline mark 3 till effectively risen and agency.
6. Prove of the tin as soon as the loaf is cool. Serve in slices.
Notes
Retains effectively in a tin for as much as per week.
Not appropriate for freezing.
If you have no recent cranberries, add chopped dried apricots, sultanas or glace cherries.
Walnuts (or pecans) would additionally add a scrumptious nuttiness and texture to this tea loaf. And, I can verify that cheese is DELICIOUS when served with it, much like Christmas cake.
Vitamin Info
Yield 12
Serving Measurement 1
Quantity Per Serving
Energy 58Whole Fats 1gSaturated Fats 1gTrans Fats 0gUnsaturated Fats 1gLdl cholesterol 18mgSodium 40mgCarbohydrates 9gFiber 1gSugar 1gProtein 2g
In Reminiscence of Nina
On the second day of the 2024, I needed to take my beloved Burmese cat to the vets, it was her final journey. I have shared beneath, on your data, the signs of CKD (Persistent Kidney Illness) together with my ideas – I hope it would assist a few of you with feline buddies, Karen
Nina 24/04/2011 – 02/01/2024
Fly excessive toddler…..my Nina Beaner Cat, my good friend and companion for 10yrs.
Taken too quickly and all of a sudden by the silent killer, CKD (persistent kidney illness), such a merciless finish to your life, the place you misplaced half your physique weight in simply 4 weeks.
You had been a sort and delightful cat who had a foul begin in life, however you definitely lived your finest life after we adopted you.
My solely solace is that your good friend and sister cat, Cherie Berry Cat, continues to be right here, though she’s already lacking you.
If there’s one lasting legacy I can share about your life, it’s this:
1. Attempt to undertake, don’t store, your entry into this world on a kitten farm, scarred you for many of your life. However we lastly gained your love and belief. In case you do need a pedigree cat or canine, take a look at the breeders 1000% earlier than shopping for.
2. CKD is the silent killer – as quickly because the worst signs are evident, it’s normally stage 4, and too late. Listed here are the indicators to be careful for:
Within the early levels of CKD, there could also be only a few indicators. The signs progress as kidney operate declines and the cat begins to endure extra penalties of this. The generally seen signs are:
• Elevated thirst
• Elevated urine manufacturing
• Diminished urge for food
• Gradual weight reduction on account of poor urge for food and lack of protein within the urine
• Vomiting on account of toxin buildup within the system
• Lethargy/sleeping extra
• Weak point on account of muscle wastage, anaemia and low blood potassium
• Dehydration on account of extra water loss into the urine
• Unhealthy breath (halitosis) — Because of toxin build-up and oral and gastric ulceration
3. Attempt to provide your feline buddies moist and dry meals, as 100% dry meals, until renal pleasant, could cause kidney issues.
4. It’s price asking for a blood take a look at in older cats (8hrs+) to verify how their kidneys are functioning, as there are kidney dietary supplements, meals and drugs that works very efficiently with early levels of kidney illness.
Your finish was my final unselfish act of affection for you…..it was arduous, however to see you scuffling with incontinence, dramatic weight reduction and your lowered urge for food, was as heartbreaking as the choice I needed to make.
Nonetheless, we had been each with you till the top, and essentially the most humbling half was you continue to purred once I stroked you and talked to you – proper till the top. Then you definitely simply slipped away, quietly and peacefully, which was all I needed.
You’ll at all times stay our hearts toddler, and we had been privileged to have shared a part of our lives with you, you had been elegant, shy but curious and a really enigmatic cat.
