Elegant Lemon Tea Bread

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 ½ teaspoons baking powder

¼ cup butter or regular margarine

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/3 cup milk

2 teaspoons grated lemon peel

Syrup:

¼ cup lemon juice

1/3 cup sugar

Preparation

Preheat Oven 350 degrees:

Lightly butter a loaf pan.

Sift flour with baking powder and salt; set aside.

In a large bowl of electric mixer, at medium speed beat butter with 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition; beat until very light and fluffy.

At low speed, beat in flour mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beat just until combined.

Stir in lemon peel. Turn batter into prepared pan.

Bake 55-60 minutes, or until cake tester inserted comes out clean.

Make syrup: In small saucepan, combine lemon juice and sugar; cook, stirring, 1 minute, or until syrupy. Pour evenly over bread as soon as it is removed from oven.

Let cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove to wire rack; let cool completely.

This is another delicious recipe from one of my mom’s cookbooks. I believe I will be cooking from this book for a while. It seems that everything is turning out delicious and is easy to make.