Carrot Ginger Tea Bread Recipes

CARROT-GINGER TEA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Place the eggs in a medium mixing bowl and whisk until frothy. Beat in the oil and prune purée. When well blended, using a wooden spoon, beat in the carrots, minced ginger, ginger juice, and orange zest.
• Combine the all-purpose flour with the bran flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and baking soda in a large bowl. When blended, add the carrot mixture, beating with a wooden spoon to incorporate.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared pans. Bake for about 25 minutes, or until the edges begin to pull away from the pans and a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Remove from the oven and invert onto a wire rack. Allow to cool before serving or storing.

CARROT TEA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Mix all the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
• Beat the eggs very light and add the baking powder. Stir into the dry ingredients with the oil, juice and carrots.
• If you decide to use nuts you can use walnuts, pecans or hazelnuts. If you use hazelnuts blanch them and remove the skins.Then brown them in the oven a little.
• Put the batter into an oiled bread pan and bake it 10 minutes at 400 degrees then turn the heat down to 325 degrees and bake for 1 hour and 5 minutes. 1 hour and 15 minutes altogether.

CARROT-GINGER TEA SANDWICHES

Steps:

• 1. * Choose the best-quality bread as possible. Never serve end slices. Freezing the bread before cutting and then spreading makes for easier handling.
• 2. In a medium bowl, combine carrots, cream cheese, mayonnaise, and ginger; add salt and pepper. Spread one side of each piece of bread lightly with butter. Top the buttered side of 2 slices of bread with carrot/ginger mixture (about 1/4-inch thick). Top with alfalfa sprouts and top with the remaining bread slices, buttered side down. Carefully cut the crusts from each sandwich with a long, sharp knife. Cut the sandwiches in half diagonally and then cut in half again. If desired, decorative shapes can be made with cookie cutters.
• 3. MAKING SANDWICHES AHEAD OF TIME: If you need to make tea sandwiches in advance and need to keep them from drying out, cover them loosely with a sheet of wax paper and then place a damp kitchen towel over the wax paper (never place a damp towel directly on top of the bread because the sandwiches will become soggy). Refrigerate.