Ingredients
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7 ounces hot tea
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1/2 teaspoon cloves
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1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon honey
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1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, or a cinnamon stick
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1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
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Lemon wedge, just to garnish
November 23 2023
seamus mc arevey
Written By seamus mc arevey - November 23 2023
So what are the ingredients of Mrs Doyle's Christmas cakes ? ok here it comes , now remember , this cake only tastes great if you enjoy it with friends and family and a nice cup of decent Irish tea for everyone !
My Christmas Cake Ingredients:
100ml Irish whiskey
quarter of table spoon of ground clove
50g ground almonds
grated rind of 1 lemon & 1 orange
150g raisins
125g stoned dates
quarter of a block of real Irish butter
125g sultanas
100g glace cherries
extra butter for greasing
200g soft brown sugar
4 eggs
grated rind of 1 lemon & 1 orange
2 table spoons of black treacle
225g plain flour
half a table spoon of salt
1 rounded table spoon of baking powder
1 table spoon of mixed spice
quarter of teaspoon of grated nutmeg
grated nutmeg and a little few teaspoons of Irish whiskey
My Method:
You should Preheat the oven to 150°C (300°F), around Gas mark.
Now grease a 20cm cake tin and then line it with greaseproof paper. Next wrap some newspaper around the outside of your cake tin with string. This should help the outside of the cake from going too brown during the cooking and so help it from drying out.
Now it's time to beat together in a big bowl all that lovely sugar & butter until its all very creamy. Next add the eggs, add a little flour in with each egg, and some treacle and perhaps a few grated fruit rinds and make sure you mix all for a few minutes.
it's time to stir the flour and baking powder into the bowl of all these lovely soaked fruits and add some salt, some spices and a few almonds, again stir all of these great ingredients together and mix well.
Now fold the fruit mix into the amazing egg mix, stir it all evenly. Now spoon the mix into the big cake tin, and maybe pull a little bit back in the middle of the cake , this will help as it rises, it will level itself off perfectly.
So Bake in the oven for 3 hours. If it is browning a lot , then cover it loosely with some tin foil. Now cook for another 30 minutes. You will know the cake is ready if you insert a fine skewer into the middle of the cake , and it comes out clean and really dry.
Now it's time to leave the cake to cool in the tin.
When the cake is cool, you can remove it from the tin, take off the lining paper, and wrap it first in clean greaseproof paper and then in tinfoil.
Here is the secret! do all this in November and each week leading up to Christmas, pour another little bit of your favourite drink over it. This will help the alcohol to penetrate to the Christmas cake and will make it taste so Irish Go On Go!
here's a hint for the perfect Irish gift to send to some one you love or may be a self gift ? yes go on try a Mrs Doyle's Irish Christmas breakfast hamper for everyone to enjoy with your Christmas cake , you can check out just how good Mrs Doyle's tea is vs Barry's ! no competition at all !
December 13 2022
seamus mc arevey
Written By seamus mc arevey - December 13 2022
Mrs Doyle's tea hot toddy is great for keeping warm, and is a soothing mix with no liquor. Her recipe is a nonalcoholic version of the famous toddy drink , it's a fantastic drink and great for cold nights.
Choose your favorite hot tea from Mrs Doyle's tea web site, we like the happy tea which is fruity with cinnamon and watch it transform into a amazing winter mocktail just by adding the spices and sweetener and citrus.
it 's such a great option for nondrinkers but also you can share a glass with the kids, and it's soothing and should help relief for cold symptoms, here's the ingredients .
7 ounces hot tea
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, or a cinnamon stick
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Lemon wedge, just to garnish
November 24 2022
seamus mc arevey
Written By seamus mc arevey - November 24 2022
Like other types of tea made from the camellia sinensis tea plant, black tea is extremely high in antioxidants. Cinnamon bark, cardamom, and cloves are also high in antioxidants. Chai tea is a wonderful source of antioxidants, so helping reduce free radicals in your body and promote your cellular health.
When you’re feeling under the weather, a decent cup of chai can actually help to ease symptoms of the common cold, or even ward off colds . Black tea contains catechins with antiviral properties that may also contribute to the prevention of common illnesses like colds and flu. Ginger contains antimicrobial properties that can help to fight illnesses like sore throat. Cinnamon contains unique antibacterial properties that can sometimes to protect against infection and keep you healthy. Also cardamom and cloves also contain antibacterial and antimicrobial properties, so making a cup of chai tea is a great choice if you want to stay well this winter , Go On Go
Ingredients in chai tea have amazingly been shown to help boost heart health. Basically black tea contains flavonoids, these can help prevent plaque buildup in the body’s arteries, which reduces stress on the heart. Cinnamon is also been shown to help to treat cardiovascular diseases and reduce harmful cholesterol.
5. Improves your digestion
Drinking chai tea can also help to improve digestion. Ginger is also a powerful digestive aid, and drinking ginger can help to improve gastrointestinal symptoms and so help the digestive system to work better, and of course cardamom has many digestive benefits .
Black tea is high in a variety of vitamins and minerals that are good for the skin, including zinc, magnesium, and potassium, all of which can help to protect and help rejuvenate the skin, and of course drinking tea is also a great way to stay hydrated, which will help your skin look healthy and fresh.
Black tea is an energizing tea that can help to increase alertness and focus. Black teas like chai tea contain moderate amount of caffeine to give us all a welcome boost of energy, and the caffeine in black tea helps to encourage our focus and alertness.
Chai contains plenty of ingredients that can help with inflammation, including black tea, ginger, cinnamon, and cardamom. Black tea can help reduce inflammation in your body, which can help soothe muscle soreness and chronic pain, and ward off inflammation-related diseases .
Cinnamon has also been shown to help reduce inflammation and soothe pain. If you’re suffering from temporary inflammation, or dealing conditions like arthritis, a cup of cinnamon tea can have great anti-inflammatory effects.
Ginger can help with inflammation too, and has been used for many centuries in herbal medicine for its powerful anti-inflammatory effects. Cardamom also contains anti-inflammatory properties.
These ingredients all make chai tea a great choice if you’ want to reduce inflammation in your body.
Black tea is high in a variety of vitamins and minerals that are good for the skin, including zinc, magnesium, and potassium, all of which can help to protect and help rejuvenate the skin, and of course drinking tea is also a great way to stay hydrated, which will help your skin look healthy and fresh.
Many caffeinated beverages, contain heaps of sugar, tea of course does not and has been shown to be good for oral health. Black tea contains compounds that attack harmful bacteria within your mouth, which can help prevent the buildup of plaque. Ginger and cardamom also contain antimicrobial and antifungal properties that help to kill off harmful oral pathogens. This can help to improve your the health of your teeth .
September 28 2018
Nick Troopthemes
Written By Nick Troopthemes - September 28 2018
Black tea is a great way to complement weight loss,sure It will soon be Christmas and well that little black dress will need to fit for all those Christmas parties and a decent cup of black tea might just be the answer.
Black tea because it's a fully fermented tea it has the ability to flush out fats found in food & to improve the ability of the human body to negate fatty acids synthesis. Black tea is also thought to be of assistance at lowering bad LDI cholesterol. So next time your having a cuppa leave out the milk and remember it's all good and perhaps a few packs as a early Christmas gift for your self or a friend might just do the trick