Poppy seed

Graine de pavot

What it is

Central Europe grinds them into a sweet paste for strudel and beigli, which is a different food from the whole seeds scattered on a bagel. It takes roughly three thousand seeds to make a gram, and the plant is the opium poppy.

In the kitchen

Grind them or soak them in hot milk before baking. Whole and dry they contribute crunch and almost no flavour.

Goes with

Lemon Honey Butter T45 flour Cream Orange Almond White sugar

Same species

Poppy seed oil White poppy seed

Also used with

Meyer lemon Diastatic malt powder

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