Found recipe! Bara brith
Posted by Melanie Unruh , Tuesday, November 26, 2013 8:40 AM
I've searched years for my great aunts' bara brith recipe. Literally, "speckled bread", this old Jones family traditional Welsh recipe was made every winter by my great aunts. Although this looks like the much-maligned holiday fruitcake, bara brith is not as sweet, not as stuffed with luridly-colored candied fruit. Although I recalled the Jones recipe to be yeast-risen using potatoes to proof the yeast, nothing similar ever turned up on the interwebs. I have a book of clipping and random recipes from my grandmother (who married a Jones but wasn't one), but the recipe wasn't in there. There's one in a recipe box in her handwriting, but there's no yeast and no potatoes, so I rejected that version years ago.
