LUSTFUL LEMON LOAF

1 medium lemon
2 and a quarter cups all-purpose flour
1 and a half teaspoons double-acting baking powder
three quarter teaspoon salt
1 and a half cups sugar
three quarter cup butter or margarine
2 eggs
half a cup milk


1. Preheat oven to 350F. From lemon, grate 1 tablespoon peel and squeeze out
juice (about 9 teaspoons). Set aside. Grease 9" by 5" loaf pan.    

2. In large bowl with fork, mix flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. With
pastry blender or two knives used scissor-fashion, cut in butter until
mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in peel.

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

4. Spoon into pan. Bake 1 and a quarter hours. Cool in pan on wire rack 10
minutes; remove from pan (carefully!)

5. In 1-quart saucepan over medium-high heat, heat lemon juice and sugar to
boiling(for 9 teaspoons of lemon juice add 4 tablespoons sugar). Cook,
stirring, until slightly thickened, 5-10 minutes. With pastry brush, brush
sugar mixture evenly over top and sides of bread. Serve warm or serve cool.
Eat.
Amen.