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Lemon Bread
See if you can bring some spring sunshine inside with this light and savory recipe. You’ll likely have the ingredients on hand and cooking with a coffee can might broaden your baking repertoire.
Skip the glaze if you would like to avoid the sugar. We found this tangy bread delicious with or without the topping.
Confession: When we made and photographed the Lemon Bread recipe below, we didn’t cut off the inside lip of our coffee can (yup, you can see it right there in the photos below). As a result, we had a really hard time removing the bread after it finished cooking. So do yourself a favor and follow these few easy steps to remove the lip from your can. It’ll save you a lot of frustration!
Use a can-opener to cut off the rim, being careful not to catch on its sharp edges. We used a basic can-opener, but for added ease, try the Kuhn Rikon opener featured in The Good Cooking Store. Carefully rinse and fully dry the coffee can to remove unnecessary shavings or coffee grounds.
Lemon Bread
Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetic Cookbook, page 250
Cooking Time: 2-2 1/4 Hours
Ideal slow cooker size: 4-qt.
Ingredients:
¼ cup canola oil
6 Tbsp. sugar
sugar substitute to equal 3 Tbsp.
2 eggs, beaten
1 ⅔ cups flour
1 ⅔ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
½ cup fat-free milk
4 ozs. chopped walnuts
grated peel from 1 lemon
Glaze:
¼ cup powdered sugar
juice of 1 lemon
1. Cream together oil, sugar, and sugar substitute. Add eggs. Mix well.
2. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Add flour mixture and milk alternately to shortening mixture.
3. Stir in nuts and lemon peel.
4. Spoon batter into well-greased 2-pound coffee can and cover with well-greased tin foil.
Place in cooker set on High for 2-2 ¼ hours, or until done. Remove bread from coffee can.
5. Mix together powdered sugar and lemon juice. Pour over loaf.
6. Serve plain or with cream cheese.
Looks good! I think I would skip the sweet glaze too. I have saved coffee cans with no clear idea of what to do with them. I think I’m going to make this bread.
hey! that is the cleverest little juicer/measuring cup ever!
Would this recipe work without the nuts? Would love to try it. Also need to track down a coffee can, in the world of K-cups, I don’t buy coffee in a can anymore!
You can use a soup can,large or small or vege can, just reduce how mch you put in and you may have to adjust cooking time. I use them when I make brown bread and don’t have a coffee can on hand.
Where can I get one of those juicer thingies?
Hi Karen! The juicer that you’re seeing is available at The Good Cooking Store, and they do ship. Click on the Contact link above for information on how to reach them. Thanks!
Phyllis,
Do you sell that cute little juicer/measurement gadget at the store in PA Dutch country?
Yes, the juicer is available from The Good Cooking Store. Thanks!
Look at this recipe!
Love this idea and wondering… where in the world did you find the little juicer, I’m in LOVE!!!
Is there something else you can cook it in besides the coffee can?? Most are plastic now…
I saved the 15 ounce mandarin orange cans. Just have to adjust the cooking time…. They worked great for making small fruit cakes too!!
I save my soup cans (any of those smaller sizes) too and bake “individual” size loaves of all kinds of bread. They freeze well and are just a good size to give as gifts… I love it.
What size coffee can?
Wait a minute! How do I do this if I don’t have a coffee can?
Do you have to use a coffee (or other kind of) can?
i second melissa … i have plastic coffee tubs… why use a coffee can? what can be used instead?
I have always saved the larger soup cans, such as the DintyMoore Beef Stew cans, for all the breads I make..perfect size, and no lip to deal with.
I will make this and use raw/turbinado sugar instead of sugar substitute. That stuff turns into formaldehyde/formic acid when it reaches body temperature after consuming and it’s SO bad for you. It gives me raging migraines and can cause seizures in some people, especially children. I would rather use raw/turnbinado sugar in moderation and work off a few extra calories than put those chemicals in my body. Otherwise, this recipe looks wonderful!
> “That stuff turns into formaldehyde/formic acid”
True, but that happens with the digestion of just about any fruit sugar as well. I think you need to drink about four diet cokes to produce the same amount of formaldehyde as a single apple.
Progressive International Citrus Juice and Measure on Amazon – $10.80 for the juicer; however, I like Joie’s version better.
Typo above…should be turbinado sugar, not turnbinado. Oopsy.
Can this same recipe be replaced with ORANGES?
OOOHHHH! That would be good!!
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I’m wondering…if we use a smaller can, such as a soup can and make individual sized bread, how full should the can(s) be with batter before baking?
Looks good, I bought a crock pot cake pan with a lid years ago from Rival, make zucchini bread a lot in it…the cake pan works perfectly if you don’t have or want to us a coffee can!
saw it on here too:
http://www.buycheapr.com/us/result.jsp?ga=us4&q=crock+pot+cake+pan
How much sugar total if I leave the artificial sugar out?
Do you have to put water in the slow cooker? Doesn’t specify in recipe.
> Laurie: I was wondering the same thing. I think I would just to be safe.
About the cans: I used to use wide mouth canning jars to make cake and bread gifts, don’t see why it wouldn’t work here.
> So sorry about mis-spelling your name, sometimes my eyes are just too fast.
Can you do this in a loaf pan or does it have to be round?
Can this be baked in oven in a loaf pan?
I am slow, but why do you need a can at all? Can’t you just put everything into the slow-cooker and go?
You can use Stevia instead. No calories and taste great. You can buy it under many names Pure Via, Truvia, etc. Taste and look like sugar but 0 calories and is all natural. I will give it a try.
does SPLENDA turn into formaldyhide too?
don’t have a slow cooker. what about cooking in oven? And can I use Splenda? Didn’t know it turned to formaldyhide.
Okay so I try very hard not to use metal….so with that can I use a glass jar and do we need water?? I have a Pamper Chef loaf pan that would fit in the cp will that work and than not put water in the cp. Or should we just use the oven……..
Do you need to put the lid on the slow cooker?
All valid questions. It’s too bad they had to be asked.
I am anxious to make this recipe. But I don’t want to use dairy milk. Any thoughts or experiences about substituting rice, soy or coconut milk?
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We used to make Boston Brown Bread in coffee cans when I was a kid growing up in Michigan.