Texas White House

Fort Worth, Texas

Archive for October, 2010

Texas White House Lemon Bread

October 11th, 2010 by Grover McMains

Breakfast at The Texas White House

Jamie makes all our breads and muffins from scratch, and this was one of the first ones she made at our bed and breakfast, beginning almost 17 years ago.  It’s still one of our guests’ breakfast favorites, and it’s also a great choice to take to a group brunch or luncheon. 

Here is our recipe for lemon bread: 

                                                       LEMON BREAD 

3/4 Cup Sugar 

1/2 Cup Butter Softened 

1/2 Cup Milk 

Rind of 1 Lemon, Grated 

2 Eggs 

1 1/2 Cups Flour, Sifted 

1 1/2 Teaspoons Baking Powder, Sift with Flour 

1/2 Teaspoon Salt, Sift With Flour 

1 Cup Finely Chopped Pecans 

Icing

Juice of 1 Lemon 

1/3 Cup Sugar 

Blend sugar and butter well.  Add eggs, one at a time and beat well.  Add flour and milk alternately, starting and ending with flour.  Stir in lemon rind and pecans.  Bake in greased bread loaf pan in 350 degree oven 45 to 60 minutes.  Let stand in pan after baking for 5 minutes.  Turn out on plate and, while hot, brush on icing mixture.

Texas Star Gardens in the Fall

October 6th, 2010 by Grover McMains

Fall Obediant Plant

The extremely hot temperatures of this last summer are gone and so are some of the summer flowers of our native Texas plants.  The heavy rains of a week or so ago and the cooler temperatures this week have brought out the first of our fall flowers.  And as you can see from the picture, some are rather impressive.  These fall flowers will continue to bloom up to the first frost; so, plan to come by our bed and breakfast to see the Texas Star Gardens in the fall.  Although fall is not a good time to plant seedlings of most of the native Texas plants, if you’re interested in getting free seedlings, we’ll take your name and send you an email next spring when you can begin to come by for them.

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