Spiced Fruit Tea Loaf

Place the dried fruit in a bowl and pour over the hot tea. Leave to cool.

Preheat the oven to 160C Fan/ Gas mark 4. Line a 2lb (900g) loaf tin with baking parchment.

Weigh out the flour, baking powder, spice and sugar into a mixing bowl.

Make a well in the middle and slowly beat in the cooled and soaked dried fruit mix with the tea, using a wooden spoon and carefully beating out any lumps of flour.

Whisk the eggs with a fork and then beat these into the batter.

Pour into the prepared tin and bake in the oven for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out cleanly.

Cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.