3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 !/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
1 1/2 cups oil
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 Tablespoon lemon zest
1 1/2 Tablespoons poppy seeds
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour 2 (9x5) inch loaf pans.
Combine the first three ingredients in one bowl. In second large bowl mix together sugar, eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla. Mix well and add lemon zest and poppy seeds
Pour batter into loaf pans. Bake for 1 hour or until done. (Insert a toothpick into the center of the loaf and it's done when it comes out clean).
Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove bread from pans and cool on wire racks.