I had three slightly elderly eggs to use up, and wanted...

  I had three slightly elderly eggs to use up, and wanted to cook them thoroughly on account of them being elderly. My barm brack recipe only uses one egg, so I decided to try the fruit tea bread in the recipe book for my bread machine. There was a slight lack of mixed dried fruit, chopped dates, cherries and walnuts in the house. There were, however, sultanas, currants, a pack of elderly dried pineapple, a pack of soft dried banana slices, and a lot of cashew nuts. So I substituted. :-) I also added an extra ounce of flour and a little extra bicarb after looking at the amount of liquid I had. It was very nice and I want to record what I did so I can do it again.( Read more... )

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