Prep Time:  10 minutes

Cook Time:  45 minutes

Yield:  16 servings

By: Kathy Scott

"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."

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

1. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, lemon juice and peel.
2. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; stir into creamed mixture alternately with milk.
3. Pour into a greased 8-in. x 4-in. x 2-in. loaf pan.
4. Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes or until bread tests done.
5. Combine glaze ingredients.
6. Remove bread from pan; immediately drizzle with glaze.
7. Cool on a wire rack.

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