Lemon Pecan Tea Bread Recipes

LEMON TEA BREAD

Steps:

• In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg and lemon zest; beat well. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. , Transfer to a 5-3/4x3x2-in. loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Combine glaze ingredients; drizzle over warm bread.

LEMON TEA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Butter and flour a 9 by 5 inch, 3-inch deep loaf pan.
• To make the bread, whisk together the eggs, lemon zest, and juice, salt, and granulated sugar in a large bowl. Fold in the creme fraiche, flour, and baking powder. Gently fold in the melted butter, mixing just until combined.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 8 minutes, then lower the oven temperature to 325 degrees F and bake for a further 25 to 30 minutes, or until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Leave to cool in the pan for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.
• To make the frosting, sift the confectioners' sugar into a large bowl. Add the lemon juice and salt, and stir until smooth. Adjust the sweetness by adding more lemon juice or more sugar as required. Drizzle the frosting over the warm bread and allow to set before serving.

BUTTER PECAN TEA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*F.
• Grease and flour a 9x5x3" loaf pan.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar.
• Stir in the pecans.
• In another bowl, combine the egg, buttermilk, and melted butter; blend well.
• Add to the flour mixture gradually; stir just until moistened.
• Do not overmix.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan; bake at 350*F.
• for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick tests out done.
• Cool 10 minutes in pan before inverting; cool completely.

LEMON TEA BREAD

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar together; add eggs, milk and lemon rind.
• Sift flour, baking powder and salt together and add to butter mixture.
• Pour into lightly greased loaf pan and bake at 325 degrees for 45-50 minutes.
• Glaze-Once sugar is dissolved, pour over hot bread and allow bread to cool before serving.

LEMON-PECAN SHORTBREAD COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. In a bowl, combine flour, nuts, sugar and lemon peel. Using a pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs and starts to cling (dough will still be crumbly). Knead until smooth and form into a ball.
• 2. On lightly floured surface, roll dough until 1/2 inch thick. Using a 1-1/2-inch to 3-inch scalloped cookie cutter, cut into rounds. Place 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• 3. Bake in a 325 degrees F oven for 18 to 20 minutes for small cookies or 20 to 22 minutes for larger cookies or until bottom starts to brown and center is set. Remove and cool on a wire rack. 20, 1-1/2-inch cookies or 5, 3-inch cookies.

LEMON TEA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter and flour two 9- x 5- x 3-inch metal loaf pans, knocking out any excess flour.
• Finely grate enough zest from lemons to measure 2‚ teaspoons and squeeze enough juice to measure about 1/2 cup. Into a bowl sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
• In a large bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter, 2 cups sugar, and zest until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. With mixer on low speed add flour mixture and milk alternately in batches, beginning and ending with flour mixture and beating just until batter is combined well. Beat in poppy seeds and 1 tablespoon lemon juice and divide batter between loaf pans, smoothing tops. Bake loaves in middle of oven until a tester comes out clean, about 1 hour.
• While loaves are baking, in a small bowl stir together remaining lemon juice and remaining 1/2 cup sugar until sugar is dissolved.
• Cool loaves in pans on a rack 15 minutes. Run a thin knife around edges of pans and invert loaves onto rack. Turn loaves right side up and pierce tops all over with a thin skewer. Repeatedly brush lemon glaze over tops of loaves until all of glaze is absorbed.
• Cool loaves completely. Tea bread keeps, wrapped in wax paper, in an airtight container at room temperature 4 days or, wrapped in foil and frozen, 1 month.

LEMON BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in eggs, lemon zest and juice. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; gradually stir into creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. , Pour into a greased 8x4-in. loaf pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 40-45 minutes. Cool in pan 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack. Combine glaze ingredients; immediately drizzle over bread. Serve warm.

PECAN LEMON LOAF

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating well after each addition. Fold in pecans and lemon zest., Transfer to a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. , In a small saucepan, combine lemon juice and remaining sugar. Cook and stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Pour over warm bread. Cool completely on a wire rack before removing from pan.

ORANGE PECAN TEA BREAD

Steps:

• preheat oven to 350.
• spray a loaf pan with cooking spray.
• combine flour and the next 5 ingredients in a large bowl.
• make a well in center.
• combine sugar and the next 7 ingredients and whisk into the dry ingredients.
• pour into the loaf pan.
• bake 45 minutes until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• cool on a wire rack.
• mix oj and powdered sugar and drizzle over loaf, garnish with toasted pecans.