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    "excerpt": "Brush a hot lemon-ginger-turmeric sugar soak into a warm shop-bought ginger or lemon loaf so the spice and citrus sink in. Five minutes.",
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            "prep": "5 min + soaking",
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            "ingredients": [
                "2 Good Earth Lemon, Ginger and Turmeric tea bags",
                "80ml just boiled water",
                "Juice of half a lemon",
                "60g caster sugar",
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                "Stir the lemon juice and sugar into the hot tea until the sugar dissolves into a loose syrup.",
                "Warm the loaf briefly if cool (3 minutes at 140C) so it accepts the soak; warm cake drinks more than cold.",
                "Prick the top all over with a skewer, then spoon or brush the warm soak slowly over so it sinks in rather than runs off, in two or three goes.",
                "Leave to cool fully in the tin; the soak sets into the crumb and the ginger deepens overnight."
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