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Recipe from Strawbery Banke Museum
Adapted by Joan Nathan
Yield: 12 servings
- 1cup poppy seeds
- 1cup milk or soy milk
- 1cup (8 ounces) unsalted butter or pareve margarine, plus more for greasing pan
- 2cups all-purpose flour, plus additional for dusting pan
- 1 cup sugar(original recipe called for 2)
- 3large eggs, separated
- 2teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½teaspoon salt
- 2½teaspoons baking powder
- zest from 2 lemons and juice from 1
- Confectioners’ sugar, for dusting
PREPARATION
- Step 1In a small saucepan, combine the poppy seeds and milk. Bring to a boil, remove from heat, and allow to rest until cool, about 20 minutes.
- Step 2Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare a large loaf or tube pan by greasing it with margarine and lightly flouring the inside of the pan.
- Step 3In bowl of an electric mixer with a paddle attachment, cream together butter or margarine and sugar. Add egg yolks, vanilla, and poppy seed-milk mixture, and beat until smooth. Gradually add 2 cups flour, salt and baking powder. Mix well; remove bowl from mixer and set aside.
- Step 4Place a clean bowl in mixer, with a whisk attachment, and whisk egg whites until stiff but not dry. Gently fold into batter. Scrape into pan, and bake until a knife inserted into the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Transfer cake to a rack. Unmold after 15 minutes. When cool, dust cake with confectioners’ sugar.