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Christmas without poppy cake? Almost unimaginable. Poppy has been known for centuries and is usually served together with honey. The Roman soldiers should consume grated poppy with honey to strengthen themselves and make them unaffected by pain. The consumption of poppy foods on Christmas Eve promises success, saturation, and health in the New Year. In the Christian tradition, the poppy is a plant of the fruit (the capsule) Thousand seed contains what is connected with fertility and fullness. In addition, the seeds contain iron, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium. Another reason to bake a delicious poppy cake.
The traditional Christmas poppy seed is prepared with a yeast dough. My favorite cake is a poppy cake with shortcrust pastry, decoratively decorated with dough grid.
My poppy cake with the grid:
The ingredients for the dough:
- 500g flour
- 250 g of butter
- 150 g of sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons Schmand
- 3 tsp of baking soda
The ingredients for the poppy coating:
- 400 g of poppy
- 2 eggs
- 100 g of sugar
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- 1 tablespoon orange
- 1 tsp grated lemon peel
- 1 tbsp raisins
- 2 tbsp rusk, ground
1. The preparation I start with the poppy because it is a little time-consuming. First, the poppy with hot water or hot milk. Leave overnight, then drain and crumble twice in the mincer. Separate the eggs. Mix the egg yolk with sugar and honey. Baking powder, raisins, orange peel and grated lemon peel. Rusk, the mass makes fluffing. Whip the egg whites and place them under the egg yolk sugar-honey mixture.
2. The dough: all the ingredients quickly (short dough may not be a long kneading) to one a short dough. Form into a ball, fold into foil and place in the refrigerator for an hour.
3. Lay a baking sheet 25x35 with baking paper. Roll out two-thirds of the shortbread dough. Lay the ground and fill the poppy seed. Roll out the rest of the dough, cut the dough wheel into strips and cover the cake in a grid-like manner.
4. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees and bake the cake for an hour until the dough becomes light brown. Good Appetite!
Poppy cake on the short dough
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