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Poppy Seeds: All the Great Recipes You Can Enjoy
By myarticlenetwork | July 4, 2009
Poppy seeds are not like any ordinary seeds that you usually either throw away after you have eaten the whole fruit or vegetable or set it aside for cultivation purposes. These seeds have already been a popular ingredient among many tempting recipes where it is often enjoyed as a topping or filling on a lot of baked treats. Its shape is more like a tiny kidney and it can be used as ground or as a whole. The size of the seed is less than a millimeter in length and is so small that 3,300 poppy seeds are needed to make up a gram. For a pound, between one to two million seeds are needed.
The seed has a scientific name of Papaver somniferum. The poppy seeds are being harvested from the seed pods of a plant called opium poppy. This traditional plant has been long known and cultivated by different civilizations across the globe like the Minoan that was established at the bed of the island of Crete and the Sumerians that rose from Mesopotamia, now known as Southern Iraq. In ancient times, poppy seeds were more popular as a common herbal aid to treat certain illnesses and diseases. But now, poppy seeds are more adored for the joy it brings in home cooking. Along the four corners of the globe, poppy seeds have been known as an important addition on various mouth watering dishes.
In most cases, poppies are used as a dressing for various meals and salads on fruits and vegetables. One savory example is a poppy seed dressing with some help of mustard powder, cider vinegar, white sugar, vegetable oil, and onion. This certain dressing is known to come perfect on fresh fruits or shredded cabbage and halved grapes. If you are craving for more, then this fine mixture of milk, distilled white vinegar, white sugar and a fat free creamy salad dressing such as Fat Free Miracle Whip will definitely satisfy. Such dressing is a perfect match on any vegetable salad and you can easily make the dressing to have in on hand in the fridge for lots of purposes any time you want.
One unique recipe for a poppy is poppy seed cranberry bread that delivers a unique new taste for lots of people to enjoy eating bread. Baking such bread is just like what bakers usually do for an ordinary loaf of bread only it requires two table spoons of poppy seeds and fresh or frozen cranberries that are thawed and chopped. But of course, poppy seed cranberry bread is incomplete without its icing drizzled over the cooled loaf. But if you are still not contented with a loaf of bread, then perhaps lemon poppy seed muffins will help you get over that hunger. These muffins are uniquely lemony but incredibly delicious in taste. For you to bake your own set of lemon poppy seed muffins, you’ll need some all purpose flour, lemon extract, lemon zest, baking powder, milk, vegetable oil, non fat lemon yogurt, egg, baking soda, confectioner’s sugar, salt, lemon juice, and of course, two table spoons of poppy seeds. After carefully considering the proper procedures for the recipe, you’ll be enjoying the sweet delicious taste of lemon poppy seed muffins after baking it for only 10-12 minutes.
In most cases, there isn’t no better dessert compared to a mouth watering cake. How about a sour cream poppy seed cake to satisfy your hunger for delicious and mouth watering cakes? In order to come up with such a recipe, you’ll be needing a yellow cake mix, instant vanilla pudding mix, vegetable oil, eggs, sour cream, orange juice, and of course, poppy seeds. You then need to bake the cake inside a pre-heated oven under the heat of 175 degrees Celsius. In just 50 minutes, sour cream poppy seed cake is all yours to enjoy.
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