2 cups flour
1 ½ tsp. baking powder
¾ tsp. salt
1 ½ cups sugar
¾ cup vegetable oil
3 large eggs
3 Tbsp. grated lemon peel (only the yellow part!)
¾ cup finely chopped walnuts
¾ cup milk
Glaze
½ cup fresh lemon juice (not the kind from a bottle)
¼ cup sugar
For bread: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour two loaf pans. Sift first 3 ingredients into small bowl. Combine sugar, oil, eggs, and lemon peel in large bowl. Using electric mixer, beat egg mixture for 2 minutes. Stir in nuts. Mix in dry ingredients alternately with milk in 2 batches each. Divide batter between prepared pans. Bake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour or less.
Meanwhile, prepare glaze: stir lemon juice and sugar in small bowl until sugar dissolves. Run small sharp knife around breads to loosen from pans. Brush all of glaze over hot breads, allowing glaze to drip down sides. Cool completely. Turn out loaves. Hard not to eat a whole loaf yourself!
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