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Cinnamon Apple Tea Bread

Courses: Breads
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

1 1/4 cups 296mlBoiling water
4   Lipton Soothing Moments cinnamon-apple
  Herbal tea bags
1/2 cup 80g / 2.8ozRaisins
1/2 cup 118mlHoney
2 tablespoons 30mlMargarine or butter
1   Egg
3 cups 187g / 6.6ozAll-purpose flour
1 tablespoon 15mlBaking powder
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlSalt
1/2 cup 73g / 2.6ozChopped walnuts or pecans
2 tablespoons 30mlHoney
1/2 cup 99g / 3.5ozConfectioners' sugar

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a teapot, pour boiling water over tea bags; cover and steep 5 minutes. Remove tea bags and reserve 2 tablespoons tea.

In a large bowl, pour remaining tea over raisins, 1/2 cup honey, and margarine, and cool completely; beat in egg.

In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Gradually add to tea mixture, blending well after each addition. Stir in walnuts.

Turn into a greased and floured 9- by 5- by 3-inch loaf pan and bake 1 hour or until bread tests done. On a wire rack, cool 10 minutes; remove from pan and cool completely before glazing.

In a small bowl, gradually add enough reserved tea and honey to confectioners' sugar until desired thickness; drizzle over bread.

This recipe yields 8 servings.

Source:
SOOTHING THE SEASONS by Lipton - (cookbooklet by mail) - Send your name and address to: - Soothing the Seasons, P.O. Box 1100, Dept. CD, Grand Rapids, MN 55745-1100 - As reprinted in the Nov/Dec, 1996 issue of Cookbook Digest

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