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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Irish >> Irish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour 2 9 inch loaf pans. | 2. Place 2/3 cups of flour in medium sized bowl. Add currants and toss well to coat. Set aside. | 3. Sift together remaining flour and baking powder onto wax paper. | 4. Beat together butter, sugar, lemon juice and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. | 5. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk in 3 or 4 additions, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. mixing after each addition only enough to just combine ingredients. Fold in the flour coated currants along with any flour left in bowl after coating them. Spoon batter into pans, smooth tops. | 6. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 25 minutes or until loaves are lightly browned, springy to the touch and pulling away from sides of pan. Cool in pans 15 minutes, remove from pans and allow to cool completely on wire racks. | 7. For Glaze: | 8. Whisk together powdered sugar and lemon juice mixture until glaze like consistency, using less or more lemon juice mixture to achieve desired effect. | 9. Drizzle over loaves to coat evenly, allow glaze to harden before slicing. Slice thin to serve. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
flour	4 2/3	cups		2698.64	590.8252	43.8713	10.4701
currant	2 1/2	cups		176.4	43.06399999999999	3.92	1.148
baking powder	2 1/2	teaspoons		6.095	3.1855	0.0	0.0
butter	1 1/4	cups	softened	1710.0	78.57	53.43	144.0
sugar	2 1/2	cups		2014.95	503.99	0.0	0.0
vanilla	1 1/2	1/2		18.144000000000002	0.797	0.0038	0.0038
lemon juice	3	tablespoons		10.065	3.1568	0.1601	0.1098
egg	4			286.0	1.44	25.12	19.02
milk	1 1/4	1/4		186.05	14.579	9.6075	9.9735
sugar	1	cup	powdered	466.8	119.72399999999999	0.0	0.0
lemon juice	1	tablespoon	mixed	10.065	3.1568	0.1601	0.1098

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.