Lemon Bread
- Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Ingredients
For Single Recipe
(Makes 1 loaf of Bread)
- Grease 1 standard loaf pan and set aside
Ingredients To Be Creamed:
- ½ cup butter (1 stick)
- 1 cup white sugar
Moist Ingredients To Beat In:
- 2 eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Dry Ingredients:
- 1½ cups flour
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon ground cardamom
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
Buttermilk and Sour Cream:
- 2 tablespoons buttermilk
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
Ingredients
For Double Recipe
(Makes 2 Loaves of Bread)
- Grease 2 standard loaf pans and set aside
Ingredients To Be Creamed:
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
- 2 cups white sugar
Moist Ingredients To Beat In:
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Dry Ingredients:
- 3 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Buttermilk and Sour Cream:
- ¼ cup buttermilk
- ½ cup sour cream
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
Instructions
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Generously grease standard loaf pan(s); set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy in texture.
- Beat in eggs.
- Mix in vanilla, lemon juice, and lemon zest.
- Add dry ingredients to work bowl.
- In a small bowl mix together buttermilk and sour cream.
- On low speed add buttermilk and sour cream mixture to the work bowl; scraping sides as needed. Turn mixer up to medium-high and beat until batter is smooth; 30 seconds to 1 minute.
- Pour batter into loaf pan(s).
- Bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Bread is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Remove from oven.
- In a small bowl mix up the lemon glaze.
- Brush or spoon the glaze over the loaf/loaves.
- Let the loaf/loaves cool on a rack for approximately 30 minutes.
- Turn out the loaf/loaves and place on rack glaze side up and cool for another 30 minutes.
- Serve or wrap in foil and refrigerate or freeze.
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