Here I go, baking again! I don’t bake much, but my neighbour recently gave me a large Ziploc bag full of poppyseeds. We are talking about the large, freezer size bag. I basically have like two pounds of poppyseeds. What is one to do with that many poppy seeds? I clearly can’t eat them all in one sitting without testing positive for opiates, so I have given some away and have been hunting down poppyseed recipes like crazy. I ended up coming across this lemon poppyseed recipe by Port and Fin and decided to try it out with a little of my own flare to it.

Lemon Poppyseed Loaf

The main part of the recipe I changed is that I used fat free Greek yogurt instead of plain full fat yogurt; I added steeped black tea to the syrup (instead of Earl Grey into a glaze); and I omitted the glaze completely mainly because I don’t really like really sweet desserts and glaze screams sweet and sugary to me! 

To start, put all of the dry ingredients into a bowl and mix well. 

Next I mixed all of the wet ingredients into another bowl. 

I then added the dry mix to the wet and mixed well. I poured the batter into a greased and lightly floured loaf pan and put it in my 350 degree preheated oven for 1 hour, until a toothpick inserted in comes out clean. 

Once the loaf is done, I let it cool for about 10 minutes. While loaf is cooling I made my syrup of tea, sugar and lemon juice. I poked holes all over the loaf and then brushed the syrup all over the loaf; I let it sit for about 5 minutes and then re-brushed more syrup over the loaf and then let it cool completely. 

Once cool, slice, serve and enjoy! 

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Lemon Poppyseed Loaf

Lemon and poppyseed loaf - citrusy and very tasty!

Ingredients

Loaf

• 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 5 Tbsp poppyseeds
• 1 cup fat free Greek yogurt
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 eggs beaten
• lemon zest of 3 lemons
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil

Syrup

• 1/4 cup of steeped black tea
• 1/2 cup lemon juice from 3 lemons
• 1/2 cup sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Grease a loaf pan and dust with flour.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and poppyseeds; set aside.
3. In a large bowl, mix together Greek yogurt, sugar, eggs, lemon zest, vanilla and vegetable oil. Add in dry ingredients until mixed.
4. Pour batter into loaf pan and bake for about 1 hour until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.
5. Let cool and while loaf is cooling, make syrup.
6. In a small saucepan over medium heat, stir together tea, lemon juice and sugar until dissolved. Use a toothpick to poke holes in the top and sides of the loaf and brush with the hot syrup. Let sit for 5 minutes to let the loaf soak in the syrup and then baste again.
7. Let cool completely. Slice and serve.

Recipe Notes

Adapted from Port and Fin

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Do you have any ideas what I should do with 2 pounds of poppyseeds? Do you bake in the summer?