Mark's bread

Following on from my brown cake post of two years ago I thought it's about time I posted another recipe, so here Mark's tweet-by-tweet recipe for his amazing bread that he sent me last week. It's so delicious I've made it four times already!

Brown cake

After the success of the cake at our pedagogical research group in the School of Biological Sciences yesterday a couple of people asked me to blog the recipe, so at the risk of raising the bar of the standard of posts on this blog, here goes. Its officially called Sticky tea loaf but my kids lovingly call it Brown cake.

• 4 oz butter
• 5 oz sugar
• 4 oz dried fruit
• 5 floz water
• 1 teaspoon bicarb of soda

Heat all that lot up in a saucepan. Bring to the boil, then simmer gently for 10 minutes. Allow to cool.

• 6 oz plain flour
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Sift dry ingredients and add to fruit mixture. Finally, add beaten egg. Place in a lined loaf tin and bake in preheated oven (gas mark 4/180) for about an hour. Eat as is or spread with butter. Keeps for a couple of weeks.