Recipe

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• about 3/4 cup (3/8 lb.) butter or margarine
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 tbsp grated lemon peel
• 1 1/2 tsp anise extract
• about 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt

• 1 With a mixer, beat 3/4 cup butter and sugar until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating to blend well with each addition. Beat in lemon peel and anise extract.
• 2 Mix 1 1/4 cups flour with baking powder and salt. Add the flour mixture to batter, mixing slowly to incorporate dry ingredients, then beat at medium speed until well blended.
• 3 Scrape batter into a buttered and flour-dusted 4 1/2- by 8-inch loaf pan. Spread level.
• 4 Bake in a 325° oven until cake is golden and just begins to pull from pan sides, about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack about 15 minutes. Invert cake onto a plate and serve warm or cool, cut into thin slices.