Beat the eggs very light and add the baking powder. Stir into the dry ingredients with the oil, juice and carrots.
If you decide to use nuts you can use walnuts, pecans or hazelnuts. If you use hazelnuts blanch them and remove the skins.Then brown them in the oven a little.
Put the batter into an oiled bread pan and bake it 10 minutes at 400 degrees then turn the heat down to 325 degrees and bake for 1 hour and 5 minutes. 1 hour and 15 minutes altogether.