Lemon tea cake
8 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | Butter or margarine |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| 2 | Large eggs | |
| ½ | cup | Milk |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| 1¼ | cup | All-purpose flour |
| ½ | cup | Chopped pecans |
| 3 | tablespoons | Grated lemon peel |
| 6 | tablespoons | Lemon juice |
| ¼ | cup | Sugar |
Directions
LEMON SAUCE
1. In a bowl, beat with a mixer to blend butter, sugar, eggs, milk, and vanilla. Stir in flour and pecans until four is evenly moistened.
Pour batter into an oiled and flour-dusted 8" square pan. Bake in a 350'F. oven until cake is lightly browned and springs back when pressed in center, about 45 minutes. 2. Run a knife between cake and pan rim; hold a rack onto pan top.
Invert to release cake, then tip back into pan. Pierce cake top all over with a fork and pour hot lemon sauce over surface. Serve hot or warm; cut from pan or serve from a platter.
*** LEMON SAUCE ***
In a 1½ quart pan over high heat, stir lemon peel, lemon juice, and sugar just until sugar is dissolved. Use hot.
~ Yvonne Visteen, Portland, Oregon.