Sweet Lemon Bread
Recipe
- Title:
- Sweet Lemon Bread
- Categories:
- Breads, Fruits
- Yield:
- 1 servings
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 c Flour
- 2 tb Lemon juice
- 2 ts Baking powder
- 1
- Lemon's rind, grated
- 1/2 ts Salt
- 3/4 c Blanched almonds, chopped
- 3/4 c Butter or margarine
- TOPPING:
- 1 1/2 c Sugar
- 1/4 c Sugar
- 3
- Eggs
- Juice of one large lemon
- 3/4 c Milk
Directions
- Bread:
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease and flour 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
- In bowl, sift flour, baking powder, and salt together; set aside.
Directions
- In large mixing bowl, cream butter/margarine and sugar until fluffy.
- Add eggs 1 by 1.
- In 3 equal batches, alternately add dry ingredients and milk.
- Stir in 2 tablespoons lemon juice and rind.
- Fold in nuts.
- Pour batter into prepared loaf pan, spreading evenly with rubber spatula.
- Bake 1 hour and test for doneness.
- (During last 15 minutes, cover loosely with aluminum foil, if necessary to prevent bread from becoming too brown.)
Directions
- Meanwhile, in bowl, combine 1/4 cup sugar and juice of 1 lemon, stirring with fork until sugar is dissolved.
Directions
- Leave bread in pan and place on wire cooling rack.
- Make tiny holes in top of bread with toothpick.
- Pour lemon/sugar mixture slowly across top, giving time for topping to be absorbed into warm loaf.
- Allow 15 minutes to set.
- Remove bread from pan and finish cooking on wire rack.
- Makes 1 loaf.
Directions
- Found In: The Houston Post, August 14, 1991 Recipe: Mary Gubser, "Quick Breads, Soups, and Stews", Council Oaks Books, $16.95
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