| 2 cup Flour | | 1 12 cup Sugar | | 2 tsp Baking powder | | 1/4 tsp Salt | | 2/3 cup Unsalted butter | | 2 x Eggs | | 3/4 cup Milk | | 1 tsp Vanilla extract | | 1/2 tsp Almond extract | | 1/2 cup Chopped almonds | | 3/4 tsp Cinnamon | | 1/4 tsp Allspice |
| | Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9 by 5 inch loaf pan. Line bottom and along sides of pan with waxed paper. Allow 3 inches overhang of paper at top. | | Sift flour , sugar, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Remove 1/2 cup flour mixture to medium bowl and set aside. Stir eggs , milk , vanilla and almond extracts into original flour mixture. And beat until blended. Pour about 1 cup batter into prepared pan. Add almonds, cinnamon , and allspice to reserved flour mixture and stir well. Sprinkle 1/3 of the nut mixture over batter in pan. Repeat layering twice, ending with nut mixture. Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 70-80 minutes. Loosen sides of loaf pan with wide spatula . Grasping waxed paper firmly, pull loaf from pan and cool on wire rack . |
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