BakingBits - Lemon Poppyseed Bread

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Lemon Poppyseed Bread

1 cup softened butter
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup poppy seeds
4 eggs
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
grated lemon rind from one lemon
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice

Sauce
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice

Make lemon sauce by stirring sugar into lemon juice and warming over low heat until sugar is dissolved. Set aside.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 5 mini loaf pans. Cream butter and sugar in mixer. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Add poppy seeds. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. In blender, put milk, lemon juice, and lemon rind to grind. Add flour mixture to batter alternately with milk and mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Divide batter into pans. Bake for 35 minutes or until a tester comes out clean. Pour lemon sauce over hot loafs. Allow it to cool for 10 minutes, then turn out on rack to cool completely.