Blueberry-Lemon Bread

Recipe Ingredients

1 1/2 cups	93g / 3.3oz	All-purpose flour
1 teaspoon	5ml	Baking powder
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Salt
6 tablespoons	90ml	Unsalted butter - (3/4 stick) - room temperature
1 1/3 cups	263g / 9.3oz	Sugar
2 cups	396g / 13oz	Eggs (large)
2 teaspoons	10ml	Grated lemon peel
1/2 cup	118ml	Milk
1 1/2 cups	355ml	Fresh blueberries
		= (or frozen blueberries, thawed, drained)
3 tablespoons	45ml	Fresh lemon juice

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter 8 1/2- by 4 1/2- by 2 1/2-inch loaf pan.

Combine first 3 ingredients in small bowl. Using electric mixer, cream butter with 1 cup sugar in large bowl until mixture is light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add lemon peel. Mix in dry ingredients alternatively with milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Fold in blueberries.

Spoon batter into prepared loaf pan. Bake until golden brown and toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, bring remaining 1/3 cup sugar and lemon juice to boil in small saucepan, stirring until sugar dissolves.

Pierce top of hot loaf several times with toothpick. Pour hot lemon mixture over loaf in pan. Cool 30 minutes in pan on rack. Turn bread out of pan and cool completely on rack.

This recipe yields one 8-inch loaf.

Source:
Bon Appetit, August 1991

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