When life gives you lemons...

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It took me about 5 minutes to pick these this afternoon, it didn't even put a dent in my heavily-laden tree

...beg your friends list for lemon-based recipes. Seriously, people, I'm up to my neck in the little yellow bastards and they just keep coming. So I'm asking you, my friends, for your favorite/family recipes or recipe ideas to use as many of these things as possible. It's that or give them to all my local friends for Xmas and nobody wants it to come to that, do they?

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recipe: Grandma Butters' Lemon Bread

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Grandma Butters' Lemon Bread

1/2 C shortening
1 C sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp lemon extract
grated lemon zest
1 3/4 C flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 C milk

Grease a loaf pan and preheat oven to 350.

Cream together sugar and shortening. Add eggs one at a time, then lemon extract and zest. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, a little at a time, alternating with the milk. (ie., add some of the flour mix to the shortening mix. Then add a bit of milk to the shortening mix. Then add some more flour mix to the shortening mix. You should begin and end with flour mix.)

Pour into prepared loaf pan and bake at 350 for 60 minutes. When it's done, take the loaf out of the oven and use a butter knife or chopstick to make slits/cuts/holes throughout the top.

Mix 3 tbl of lemon juice (or if you're a nut like me, way, way more) with 1/4 C sugar. Drizzle this syrupy goodness on top of the loaf. Let it cool, then dig in and savor the luscious bottom of the bread.