Recipe - Canadian Lemon Bread

One half cup Butter or margarine
1 cup Sugar
1 Lemon (large)
2 Eggs, beaten
1 One half cup Flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
One half cup Milk
One half cup Nuts, chopped (optional)
One fourth cup Confectioners' sugar

Cream together butter and sugar until fluffy. Grate peel from lemon and add
to creamed mixture. Squeeze juice from lemon and set aside. Add eggs,
flour, baking powder, salt and milk to creamed mixture and blend well. Stir
in nuts.
Turn batter into greased 9x5inch loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees one
hour. Combine lemon juice and confectioners' sugar and mix well. Pour over
hot loaf and allow syrup to sink into bread. Turn loaf out onto a rack and
cool.
Posted to MMRecipes Digest by Jim Bauer jimbauer@worldnet.att.net on
Feb 12, 1998