Lori, if you have any kind of black tea, I think it would work and not take away from the flavor of the tea brack--like Lipton, Tetley or Red Rose. I did it with English breakfast tea because I had it but in retrospect, I think any of the other more common American black teas would work. Renata

OK, so the pictures of the Irish Tea Brack did it. Now I am going to have to make some. First I have to stop and get some English Breakfast Tea, since all I have is all kinds of flavored herbal teas. I have everything else, so I will be set to go.. Will let you know how mine turns out. Thanks to Rita and Rosemary for sharing the recipes.
Lori

you all are making me so hungry.............

Well I got bit after seeing the photo of those delicious looking "brack" so I am going to try it my way. I don't have any golden raisins a.k.a. sultanas, so I'll substitute cranraisins and I am out of English tea so I will use Earl Grey. Will report in the morning how it turns out.
As far as quilting goes. We got word that there is a new little cowboy on the way. He should be here end of May. Our 3rd grandchild. So I made a baby quilt, a baby quilted burp cloth and 3 pair of quilted baby cowboy boots. I hope I don't let Rita down with all my substituting! But out here on the ranch I can't just run to the store and get what I 'm out of... Sometimes this is good and sometimes this is a bad thing... 78 today. I washed the truck and the car, vaccumed out the gravel, washed the windows, quilted, cleaned and pulled 2 calves. I think the hefier bull we bought was really "NOT" a hefier bull, his babies are huge! :shock: I think we need a refund! The stars are georgious out here on the praries tonight, so warm, so quiet, so beautiful!

Me too, My brothers and I snuck the sugar bowl out to the patch and dunked a stock in the sugar and chewed away! So sweet and so good![/quote]

I didn't use sugar on mine. I also used to eat the sour pie cherries right off the tree.

Sharon, I love zucchini any way I can get them so I've saved your recipe in OneNote and will find an occasion to make it. Does the 'R' in 'RoTT' stand for 'Recipes'?

djane wrote: Debbie, I want your recipes if you are sharing. the cookie crust got me hooked! LOL!
Bren from SD

sewengel wrote:
Sharon have you ever tried this with fresh frozen zucchini? I was wondering if it would work or not? I use it in a chocolate zucchini cake recipe. It gets a little watery when the zucc... thaws but it works good.

Renata wrote:

Renata, this looks so very good...

ajclapp wrote:
Me too, My brothers and I snuck the sugar bowl out to the patch and dunked a stock in the sugar and chewed away! So sweet and so good!

sewengel wrote:

Awesome I am going to try this one too!
And back to rhubard was I the only child who snuck the sugar bowl out to the rhubarb patch to dunk a stalk of rhubarb in it and chew a big ol bite? Those were teh days. Good old summer days as a child. Our rhubarb is sweet and bright red. delicious.

Bren in SD

Nancy, I am so glad Rita shared her recipe because it was so easy to make and is delicious! The directions were perfect and if you follow them to the letter, you will be very happy with the results. When the raisins were ready the next morning, the first thing I did was turn on the oven. Then I prepared the tins with parchment paper. By the time the ingredients were sifted and incorporated, the oven had reached the temperature required to put the tin in the oven. Voila', done! This recipe is for sure a 'keeper!' Renata

Oh my gosh, Renata. Your tea brack ( I think I got that right) looks great!! I copied the recipes and plan to try them, too. After all, one can't live by quilting alone - sometimes you've got to have a treat!!! When my husband and I were on our honeymoon in Maine over 13 years ago, we had a wonderful bread in our bread basket one evening at a fine restaurant that was made with Earl Grey tea and it had such a pleasant flavor. I don't remember if it had any fruit in it, but maybe a few golden raisins. I love this sharing of foods. Nancy

As promised yesterday, I soaked raisins and sultanas last night. Today I made Rita's Irish Tea Brack and I love it (so does DH ). I think it turned out a little more moist than intended only because I did not have two small tins to divide the mixture into and so I baked it a little longer but might get a different result if there were two tins and the bracks were smaller. But, absolutely delicious! Thank you for the recipe, Rita. Can't promise when, but I will try Rosemary's recipe with yeast too (a lot on my plate--tea brack?--to do another recipe at this moment). Since I was so intent on getting away from the sewing machine and into the kitchen, I started feeling guilty... so this morning at the crack of dawn I finished Month 1 of Sedona Star and will post it shortly on Show and Tell. In the meantime, here is Rita's Irish Tea Brack in photos:{!-- ia0 -->Rita's Irish Tea Brack 3.jpg{!-- ia0 -->