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"ref": "2000, Beth Hensperger, “Express-lane Bread: No-yeast Quick Breads”, in Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker’s 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-every-time Bread—from Every Kind of Machine, Boston, Mass.: The Harvard Common Press, page 554",
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"text": "This loaf may sound unusual, but it is a favorite tea bread among quick bread lovers and very old-fashioned. While bara brith can also be made with yeast, the main requirement is that the cake be speckled with dried fruit steeped for a few hours in tea, rather like a simple fruitcake the Brits so love.",
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"text": "A good bara brith always calls for the fruit to be soaked overnight in strong tea. The cake improves with age, and is really good three or four days after baking. Or you can serve it warm from the oven, with lashings of salted butter and drizzled with more honey.\nThe recipe in this book calls for self-raising flour instead of yeast.",
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