Nutrition Facts

  • One serving:
  • (1 slice)
  • Calories:
  • 171
  • Fat:
  • 7 g
  • Saturated Fat:
  • 4 g
  • Cholesterol:
  • 43 mg
  • Sodium:
  • 113 mg
  • Carbohydrate:
  • 26 g
  • Fiber:
  • 0 g
  • Protein:
  • 2 g

Lemon Bread

You'll often find Kathy Scott baking this sunshiny-sweet bread in her Hemingford, Nebraska kitchen when company's due. It has a pound cake-like texture.

SERVINGS

16

CATEGORY

Breads

METHOD

Baked

PREP

10 min.

COOK

45 min.

TOTAL

55 min.

INGREDIENTS

  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
  • 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • GLAZE:
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar

DIRECTIONS

In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, lemon juice and peel. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; stir into creamed mixture alternately with milk. Pour into a greased 8-in. x 4-in. loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until bread tests done. Combine glaze ingredients. Remove bread from pan; immediately drizzle with glaze. Cool on a wire rack. Yield: 1 loaf.

Printed from tasteofhome.com Nov 19, 2008

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