poppy seed bread

• 3 eggs
• 2 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons poppy seed
• 1 1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring
• 1 1/2 teaspoon butter flavoring
• 1 1/2 cup milk
• 1 1/8 cup oil (canola or whatever)
• 3 cups flour    

Glaze:

• 1/2 teaspoon butter flavoring
• 1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1'4 cup orange juice
• 1/2 cup sugar

Combine eggs, sugar, vanilla, salt and baking powder. Mix well. Add poppy seed, flavorings, milk and oil. lightly grease 3 eight inch loaf pans (use whatever size, it doesn't matter). Add flour, a cup @ a time. Fill pans 2/3 full. Bake at 350 for 1 hour. Cool. Mix glaze ingredients together well, then drizzle over the loaves.

This is a recipe that I received from a fellow teacher (a Baptist minister's wife) years ago. I like it because it does not have lemon in it. Today I have to make it for something going on at church which proves I really have turned into my mother!