Lemon Rose Bread Food

THE BEST LEMON BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Generously grease a 9-inch loaf pan with butter on the bottom and sides of the loaf pan. Add 1 tablespoon of flour to the pan, shaking to coat. Be sure to shake out any excess flour.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, eggs, and sugar until light and fluffy.
• In a smaller bowl, sift together flour, salt, and baking powder and whisk to evenly distribute salt and baking powder.
• Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture, along with the milk and lemon zest. Fold to evenly incorporate batter. Be careful to not overmix, just mix until the flour is fully moistened.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into a lemon loaf comes out clean.
• While lemon bread is baking, whisk together lemon juice and sugar until the sugar is dissolved. Tip: it may help to warm up your lemon juice for20-30 seconds in the microwave before whisking with sugar.
• After the bread is baked, leave your lemon bread in a loaf pan and poke holes halfway to the bottom of the pan evenly along the top of the bread. Pour the glaze over the lemon bread.
• Let the bread sit in the loaf pan for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, loosen the sides of the bread from the edges of the pan with a butter knife, then remove the bread from the pan and transfer it to a cooling rack to finish cooling completely.

EASY ROSEMARY FOCACCIA

Steps:

• Combine 5 tablespoons warm water, yeast, and sugar in a large bowl. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
• Add flour and 1/4 teaspoon salt to the yeast mixture; stir well to combine. Stir in 1 tablespoon additional water at a time, if necessary, until all flour is absorbed and mixture has pulled together into a dough. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until springy, 4 to 6 minutes.
• Lightly oil a large bowl. Place dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 465 degrees F (240 degrees C). Lightly grease a baking sheet.
• Deflate dough and turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead briefly, then pat or roll dough into a sheet and transfer to the prepared baking sheet. Brush with remaining oil and make dimples across the surface with your fingertips. Sprinkle with rosemary leave and extra salt to taste.
• Bake in the preheated oven to desired crispness, about 10 minutes for light and fluffy or 20 minutes for crunchier and darker on the outside.

OLD-FASHIONED LEMON BREAD

Steps:

• Grease and flour-dust a 4 1/2 by 8 1/2-inch loaf pan; preheat oven to 350°.
• In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt; in a small bowl, beat eggs with milk, oil and lemon peel.
• Add egg mixture to flour mixture; stir just until blended and spread batter in prepared loaf pan.
• Bake until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 45-50 minutes; meanwhile, prepare lemon glaze.
• Using a long wooden skewer, poke numerous holes in hot bread, piercing all the way to the bottom.
• Slowly drizzle hot glaze over bread; let cool in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes then remove from pan and let cool completely on rack.
• Lemon Glaze: In a small pan, combine lemon juice and sugar; stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved.

ROSEMARY-LEMON NO-KNEAD BREAD

Steps:

• In large bowl, combine flour, yeast, salt, rosemary and zest.
• Add 1 5/8 cups water, stir until blended (dough will be shaggy and sticky)
• Cover with plastic wrap.
• Let dough rest at warm room temperature (70F) until surface is dotted with bubbles (12-18 hours) Pleace dough on lightly floured surface.
• Sprinkle dough with flour, fold dough over onto itself once or twice.
• Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest 15 minutes.
• Using very little flour, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball. Generously coat smoot cotton towel with cornmeal.
• Put dough, seam side down, on towel. dust with more flour or cornmeal. Cover with another towel; let rise until dough is more than double in size and does not readily spring back when pokked with a finger, about 2 hours.
• t least 30 minutes before dough is ready, put 2 3/4 quart cast-iron pot in oven; preheat oven to 450°F.
• Remove pot from oven.
• Slide hand under towel; turn dough over, seam side up, into pot; it's OK if it looks messy.
• Cover with lid; bake 30 minutes.
• Uncover, bake until loaf is browned, 15-30 minutes more.
• Set pot on wire rack; cool 10 minutes.
• Using oven mitts, turn pot on side; gently turn bread, it will release easily.

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.