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Recipe of the Day: Zucchini Bread (recipe from How to Cook Like Your Grandmother; photo by pinprick on Flickr, via Creative Commons).

Ingredients

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
second bowl
1 cup sugar
1 cup finely shredded unpeeled zucchini
1/4 cup olive pomace oil
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel
reserved
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Directions
Preheat the oven to 350°. Then combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, baking powder and nutmeg in a medium bowl.

In a large bowl, combine the sugar, zucchini, lemon, egg and oil, then stir to combine.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet, and stir until just incorporated.

Coat a loaf pan with butter (or lard) and dust with flour, and pour half the dough into the pan.

Now mix the walnuts into the remaining batter and pour into the pan.

Bake for 50-60 minutes, until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Let it cool for 10-15 minutes, then turn the pan over and rap gently to pop it out.