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Chai-spiced ginger and date tea loaf
Cooking ingredients
100g/3½oz chopped
dates
60g/2¼oz soft dark
brown sugar
15g/½oz fast-action dried
yeast
450g/1lb
strong white flour
pinch
salt
50g/1¾oz
stem ginger
in syrup, chopped, plus 2-3 tbsp syrup from the
stem ginger
for the glaze
1 tbsp green
cardamom
pods, seeds only
3
black cardamom
pods, seeds only
pinch
black peppercorns
1 whole
star anise
pods
1 tbsp ground
cinnamon
1 tsp
ground ginger
1 tbsp
vanilla bean paste
Dairy, eggs and chilled
60g/2¼oz unsalted
butter
, plus extra for greasing
135ml/4½fl oz full-fat
milk
, preferably organic
2 large free-range
eggs
, beaten
50g/1¾oz unsalted
butter
Other
1 tbsp chai
tea
50g/1¾oz jaggery (or
palm sugar
)
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