95 thoughts on “Fruit tea bread recipe + a tea giveaway”

  1. I’d love to share a cup of tea with my Oma. She passed away when I was a teenager but her strength of character lives on inside me. I’d love to talk to her as an adult, about motherhood, feminism, and life.

  2. My grandmother. Apparently we are very much alike in our mannerisms, temper & attitude to life. She passed away shortly after I was born.

  3. I would like to share a cuppa with my gran who passed away when I was young I have do many questions I’d love to ask her about her life !

  4. I’d share a cuppa with my grandma (my mum’s mum) because I miss going to hers for the summer 🙂

  5. I would like to sit down for tea with my father in law, he died a long time ago and I never met him. Everyone has told me what a nice guy he was, and I would love to meet him.

  6. I have a very good friend who we often sit and drink tea with and solve the problems of the world. From a teapot (she collects them) in beautiful tea cups.

    Love this recipe and will be making it this week! Love fruit bread.

    I have a secret lusting for a twinings tea box… Whenever I see them at beautiful venues, I want to sneak it away…

  7. My Nan. She made it into a lovely ritual with a teapot and cosy which we drank from her Mothers china tea cups. I still only drink tea from a tea cup.

  8. I’d love to share a cup of tea with younger me – to recall thing I loved, to remember how I looked at world, what I wanted to be and how I wanted to live. And then I’d like to have similar conversion with older me – for I know it’s all worth it… 🙂

  9. My grandmother, who is no longer with us, but she was a wise lady and I used to love my time chatting with her.I would dearly love to ask her some questions about what she would do and say to some situations happening today.

  10. My beautiful sister who passed away 2 years ago after fighting liver cancer, so much ha happend since that i need to catch her up and show her the besutiful house she bought us

  11. Ellen Degeneres! Ellen is one funny woman! I would love to have her over for a cuppa! I think she would be such a fantastic person to get to know! She would definitly keep you entertained!

  12. My Dad – he has passed on and never got to meet my twin boys. I’d love to have a cuppa ( he’d add Scotch to his I’m sure ) and sit and watch the boys. Miss him every day

  13. My mum! She was always drinking cuppas with her friends. I’ve only just started drinking tea, so I never had a cuppa with her

  14. I would love to share a cuppa with Nigella Lawson. Her love for food and the joy that she gets from food is to be admired and I would love to have have a great chat over a cup of Twinings with her.

  15. My mum’s Aunty Phyl, she passed away 17 years ago, Aunty Phyl played such an important part in our lives, she was like a second mum to both me and my siblings. The picture of this tea bread reminds me of the delicious rock scones she use to make!

  16. I would love to share a cup of tea with my mother. She is in Michigan while I am here in Queensland. I miss her. Today is her birthday – a perfect day for sharing a cup of tea!

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  17. My Mother… Ever since I could walk we would have tea together in the mornings and then again in the afternoons after school. When I grew up I would go to her house on the weekends and sit to have tea with her. She made a fantastic pot of tea !!

    When she died not only did I lose my best friend, I lost my tea drinking buddy. I still think of her when I sit for my morning cup of tea.

  18. I would love to share a cup of tea with my other mother Georgianna Cannupp. I learned so much from her over the years of my life and would love to be able to sit down with her again for a talk over tea, Not a day goes by that you are not in my thoughts, and I hope you can see me raising my children the way you taught me.

  19. I never met my maternal grand mother, but my mum reminisces about her with such fond emotion; her artistry, her elegance, her regal beauty and her talents at singing and embroidery. I would love to have tea with ‘gran-nan’ and then share my memories of her with my own mother, over another cup of tea of course.

  20. My Great Aunt…I never got to meet her, but everyone who speaks of her has the most wonderful things to say about her. I’d like to share tea with her so I can see for myself what a beautiful person she was.

  21. Roald Dahl – I’d love to sit and sip tea with him. Pick his mind about writing and life. Delve into his amazing, imaginative brain.

  22. Jane Austen. I love her books and imagine that she would be a fansinating companion for a cup of tea! (and I do love my tea!)

  23. My husband. We are so busy running around with jobs and looking after the child that we just don’t take enough time to sit and be with each other. We really need to do that more often.

  24. my mom. she just had an operation and i was with her the whole time. she’s on her way to full recovery. looking back, we never really had a chance to bond over anything. it saddens me that things like this had to happen, for me to be able to show her how much i love and care for her. I don’t know if she likes tea but I’d like to have it with her. 🙂

  25. My Gran, sadly long gone. She always made a big fuss of teatime and she gave me my love of high tea. She always served Twinings and said it was the best. I wish I’d asked more questions about her life and family. Back then, I never gave a thought to the past.

  26. My Gran, sadly long gone. She always made a big fuss of teatime and she gave me my love of high tea. She always served Twinings and said it was the best. I wish I’d asked more questions about her life and family. Back then, I never gave a thought to the past.

  27. I would have tea with my grandparents (Dad’s side). They passed away when he was 7, so i have never met them and my family has very few photos of them. I have been told by my Dad that I have a lot of mannerism’s that are similar to my grandmother so i would love to see how similar we are. I realise I picked two people here but they come as a package 🙂

  28. I would love to share a cuppa with Anna Eleanor Roosevelt as she had an amazing and powerful voice on behalf of a wide range of social causes including youth employment and civil rights for blacks and women. She even had her own radio program, and wrote a daily newspaper column. After her husband’s death, she continued in public life. She served also as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations and helped draft the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

    I think she would ahve many amazing stories to tell and it would be great to sit with her and share a cuppa a biscuit.

  29. You do sponsored posts beautifully. I with my pop was around to have a cup of yes with and to give me guidance on life, the garden and to retell me how he met my nana. I could listen to them tell me that story all the time.

  30. I’d love to share a cup of tea with my Mum. She passed away 11 years ago and not a day goes by that I don’t think of her. So if given the chance I’d love to make her a cuppa and offer her one of her beloved chocolate teddy bear bikkies, and have a yarn with her. Fill her in on all that has happened in 11 years: new job, house, marriage, children. She’s not someone famous but in my eyes she is THE most inspiring person, having fought Motor Neurone Disease with grace, humour and courage right to the very end. I would give anything to have 5 minutes again with her, just so that she can meet her grandchildren and give them a cuddle.

  31. It would be a priviledge to share a cup of tea with Nelson Mandela…..surely one of the most incredible human beings to have ever lived.

  32. Id like to be able to share a cup of tea and a conversation with my nephew. He was born sleeping at 36 weeks and every day i wish he were here to see him grow!

  33. Hands down it would be Dorothy the Dinosaur not only would we sit down to a lovely cup of Rosie tea but Dorothy would entertain the little one at the same time! Imagine having a hot cup of tea oh it’s been so long!

  34. my Nana, she passed away when I was only 17, I always looked forward to her being around when I had kids, unfortunately they will never know how loving she was, she would have spoilt them rotten!

  35. My husband who loved tea and a chat and has not been with us for three years now. How I would love to share another cup of tea with him.

  36. A lovely friend of mine Christie who passed away a few years back and is always on my mind and in my heart. I think she’d have babies now and we would have watched them grow together whilst giggling over a cuppa

  37. I would love to have a cup of tea with my aunty Rosemary who I never got to meet as she passed away before I was born. Mum loved her so much and I wish I could have met her.

  38. My former employer, I miss our afternoon cuppa’s in the boardroom, lengthy chats about anything and everything & the delicious cakes his wife would bring in. Not to mention he was gorgeous to look at, making tea time even better! Shame he was a miser and I had to move on to bigger and better things.

  39. Moses, so once rested and refreshed from his cup of tea, he could show me first hand how he parted the Red Sea.

  40. I would love to share a cup of tea with Queen Elizabeth (I or II – or both) and sip out of Royal Doulton because that would be the most wonderful exciting event. We could talk about all kinds of things:- the weather, the corgis, the children and grand children 🙂

  41. Is Assam Bold new? I didn’t realise. I picked it up off the shelf a couple of weeks ago and it’s my new afternoon treat (I’m trying to let go of the Diet Coke habit… hard work! I know you know!!).

    I’d love a cup with Oscar Wilde, I’d reckon. Now, that’s bold! x

  42. My mum. She’s my bestie, we’ve been enjoying cups of tea since I wa 10, now in my early thirties, I still look forward to cups of tea with mum!

  43. My Pop. He passed away suddenly just over a year ago and I keep remembering things I never got to ask him. He’d know how to fix my veggie patch and eat one too many biscuits. He always did.

  44. Really there is ton of ppl i would want to choose but really the choice is that easy, My Dad, he passed away suddenly last year and i still miss his chats, would be great just to have one last cuppa 🙂

  45. Ooooh I will definitely try this recipe, looks delicious!

    As for who I would have a cup of tea with – I grew up in a country town in NZ and there was a lovely elderly couple down the road that all the neighbourhood children just called Nanna and Pop. Nanna would bake scones and make a pot of tea and we’d visit and have tea parties with them, I never understood at the time why they enjoyed having a bunch of children in their house. And I hated tea. Both lived in to their 90’s and made tea for the kiddies until they passed. I’d love to have a cup of tea with Nanna to show her that I have grown to appreciate tea (and tea parties like hers!), whilst I always loved the scones and jam, I never every drank the tea – I didn’t like it as a child! And for all the generosity that she showed us as small children, it would be nice if to actually make her a cuppa and some scones.

  46. When I think tea, I think English & when I think English, my thoughts turn to a country who’s heritage is both rich & vast historically & literally. The very epitome of which in my humble opinion, is one of my favourite novels, Pride & Prejudice.
    The scope & imagery of the English countryside during that period, the people & how they’re daily lives seem galaxy’s away from how we conduct ourselves today.
    Enjoying a cup of tea whilst Mrs Bennett natters on about the current prospects for her daughters, all the while Miss Lydia & Miss Kate are fussing & giggling over ribbons & social gatherings no doubt, whilst Miss Elizabeth lazes by drowning herself in a novel & Miss Jane busies herself sewing quietly. Of course in the background to all this afternoons hustle & flow; the disjointed sounds of Marie attempting a mournful tune on her piano forte would most certainly keep us all bemused.
    Another cup?
    Yes please. 🙂

  47. Oh, I’d love to have another cup of tea with Nanny, my grandmother. It was always (well, until the last year or so of her life) accompanied by a freshly baked sultana cake and nobody has ever made one quite like it. She was also an awesome scone maker and mine are complete and utter failures (even those simple “foolproof” lemonade ones) so I’d love to have a scone baking lesson with her and then a cup of tea with fresh scones (slathered in jam and lashings of whipped cream) and sultana cake.

  48. I would love to share a cuppa with you, Chantelle. Because, we are both Instagram lovers, and we love taking pictures of clouds. I think we would have heaps to talk about, and I need some tips about puppies. 🙂

  49. I quite often have a cuppa-tea with my mother, its the first thing we do when shopping. Mum is very lonely ever since my father passed away. But my mother is my inspiration as she has gone thru a double masectomy with-out crying for help. One very rare women of todays society as she loves to talk & will chat away with strangers.Will drop every thing & leave her home falling down around her to help her friends at the drop of a hat. One very kind hearted person & I hope I will be just half as kind & friendly as my Mum. <3 <3

  50. My husband’s grandmother died recently and as is often the way I learnt so much more about her life at her funeral. She was a remarkable woman, strong, driven, generous and kind. I’d love to sit down to one more cuppa with her and hear her life story from her.

  51. The tea bread sounds delicious . I’d like to have a cup of with Mother Thereas …to soak in her spirit of unconditional love for humanity and overcoming insurmountable obstacles.

  52. That is a hard one, there are so many people i would love to sit down and share a cup of tea with and really explore their thoughts and actions. From people i admire, celebrities, passed relatives and a long line of other people who have inspired me personally.
    I think given the choice though i would have to say my Nan, who although she is still with us often doesn’t get to sit down and enjoy a cup of tea with me as one of the four great grandchildren either want their ‘More Nans’ attention or mine.

  53. Oh how I would love to share tea with my cousin, gone too soon at the age of 27, when I was just 15. My now 30 year old self would love to be able to share in her wisdom and kindness, something I have truly missed. And there would definitely be cake involved!

  54. I would love to have a cup of tea with my Nanna who passed away 12 months ago. We drove to visit her every school holidays to spend time with her, have a cuppa and a chat. Miss her dearly and miss our cuppa and a chat.

  55. I myself would like to have a cup of tea with you! I’m fascinated by the life of a blogger and would like to know more. Shall I put the kettle on?

  56. my late Grandma – she was my everything and I never got to say “Thanks” or “Goodbye”. She loved her cup of tea – would love to sit down one more time and say “I Love You” for everything she ever did for me while I was growing up.

  57. Life is wonderfully hectic with 4 children under 5 and a husband who travels alot. I am lucky enough to have wonderful women in my life who relieve the stress. My mum is the one person I love drinking tea with. It’s a ritual we have enjoyed since I was a teenager, we share copious amounts of tea and stories. I still get a thrill knowing she will be knocking on my door for a cup of tea (and a piece of cake – have just made the Tea Fruit Loaf from Fat Mum Slim) real soon.

  58. My grandmother ‘Nan’. She came to Australia when she was 6 and although an Australian through and through she had a well stocked tea cabinet, carrying on her English heritage. I grew up having devonshire tea with her on our Cat’s days out. After 12 years of not having her around (sadly she passed) I am a complete tea addict and can’t have a cup with out thinking of her!

  59. I’d like to have tea with my workmate Mary, We are both so busy with our respective jobs that we barely get time to say good morning to each other, let alone stop for a cuppa and catchup.

  60. My friend Lucy. She’s living in Jaoan, studying and working her bottbott off and I just want to give her a hug and know she’s OK.

  61. My wife, just because I Love to Share every possible moment with her, cause I love her to the Moon and back ;). She is my insipartion and the reason why I get up every morning.

  62. The fruit tea bread is in the oven and kettle on. Would love to have a cuppa with my 2 year old (she won’t have the tea) because I don’t spend enough time with her since no 2 came along 5 months ago.

  63. I would love to share a cup oft tea with my grandma.She died a long time ago and I would have so much to share with her.

  64. The one person i love to sit down and enjoy a cup of tea with is my mum, as every friday night she comes over and we have a girls night together of craft and watching movies.

  65. Henry VIII to try and understand why women continued to marry him despite his past record of chopping off their heads!

  66. I would love to share a cup of tea with my dear friend Sue. We don’t get to do it very often but when we do we spend hours chatting, drinking tea and eating yummy cake.

  67. My best friend, we have lived apart since we left school and our catchups are few and far between. Would love to sit, sip ourt tea and have a good chat 🙂

  68. Hi Chantelle,
    I am very new at this blogging thing, a blogging virgin you might say! Never commented on anything ever, so this is a real 1st for me.
    Who is one person (dead or alive) I would love to share a cup of tea with, and why?
    It is my Mum. She passed away 12 years ago but the “missing her” doesn’t go away. She has left such a gap and I miss her and I could not think of anyone better to have a cuppa with, hear all her news, fill her in on her grand-children, etc etc.

  69. Marie Antionette…instead of lots of ‘cake’ comments..you should have offered tea! Everyones much happier after a cuppa!

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