Recipe - Lemon Loaf

1 Lemon
2 One fourth cup Flour, allpurpose
1 One half teaspoon Baking powder
Three fourths teaspoon Salt
1 One half cup Sugar
Three fourths cup Butter
3 Eggs
Three fourths cup Milk
2 tablespoon Sugar

From lemon, grate 1 tablespoon peel and squeeze 4 One half teaspoons lemon
juice; set aside.

In large bowl with fork, mix flour, baking powder, salt and 1 One half cups
sugar. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in peel.

In small bowl with fork, beat eggs slightly and stir in milk; then stir
this mixture into flour mixture just until flour is moistened.

Spoon into greased loaf pan. Bake at 350F for 1 One fourth hours. Cool in pan on
wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan.

Heat lemon juice over mediumhigh heat, stirring in 2 tablespoons sugar.
Heat to boiling. Cook, stirring, until slightly thickened, about 5
minutes. With pastry brush, brush sugar mixture evenly over top of bread.
Serve warm, or cool loaf completely to serve later.

I've also made 3 small (3.5x6 inch) loaves with this recipe, baked at 350F
for 45 minutes.

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