[RUSTYME]

Barra brith is more just a fruit loaf with the dried fruit being soaked in tea , but no malt ? , sort of halfway between bread and cake really . Not sure of the difference in recipes , google would sort that , but they are different , both lovely though . Mind you , don't eat any malt loaf from behind certain peoples cupboards !

[lachlanandmarcus]

Barra brith is more just a fruit loaf with the dried fruit being soaked in tea , but no malt ? , sort of halfway between bread and cake really . Not sure of the difference in recipes , google would sort that , but they are different , both lovely though . Mind you , don't eat any malt loaf from behind certain peoples cupboards !

Hee hee   yes watch what you get with your fly cup in our place! Youre safe as I'm old enough to refuse the offer of malt loaf and we sold the house with the malt loaf insulation 

[RUSTYME]

Lol , what a relief !
I pity the poor bugger that moved that cupboard !

[happygolucky]

I used to like Barra Brith better than Malt loaf.....as she lived in Llay and used to visit Chester and the "pool" we also got scouse quite often..funny how our memories get confused...my mum was a good cook and I remember she said her mum was, when I spoke to my eldest cousin she remembers my nan giving my pop a bit of dusty fatty bacon out the larder with a dry crust to accompany it!!

[Pedwardine]

My ma hated bread and dripping and used to drop her's in my Grandad's wellies!
Remembered just now that Grandad came home from work one night and made himself a corned beef sandwich. Got told the next day that it was dog food on the plate not corned beef. Bleugh! Pretty similar actually come to think of it...

[happygolucky]

Its been years since I had corn beef frittes

[Pedwardine]

I'm guessing that's a good thing?

[plumseverywhere]

oh yuk, my mum went through a stage of a) trying to make her own malt loaf and it was always raw and gooey in the middle and then b) sending me to school with corned beef sarnies when I was little, this thread is resurfacing old traumas, I need to have a lie-down to recover!!

[Ina]

Barra brith is more just a fruit loaf with the dried fruit being soaked in tea , but no malt

That sounds like what's called overnight teabread in my house... Lovely stuff.

[happygolucky]

I'm guessing that's a good thing?

I loved corn beef fritters but dare not have them now......must be all fat!!

[F.CUTHBERT]

I might be imaging it but did Sunblest not make a malt loaf that was in packaging very similar to the Sorren one?

[Pedwardine]

I dunno. That does sound possible. Sorry for the trauma Plums!

[Snap Happy]

My Father asked me the same thing today after I served him a slice of buttered Soreen. He subsequently remembered the (similar type of) malt loaf was called ‘Youma’

[SallyintNorth]

I’m 62 and as far as I can remember it’s always been Soreen in my lifetime.  I do remember the Sunblest one too.

Wikipedia says

Rikki Sorensen developed the loaf in conjunction with a business partner Green, hence the name, Soreen.

[Fleecewife]

Why on earth has this been dredged up after 6 years? It wasn't too exciting the first time around.....