After several attempts at new Christmas recipes over the years, I’ve really come to appreciate my family’s old favorites. So this summer, I raided my mom’s recipe box and came away with several yummy things to try, including our traditional poppy seed bread!
Mix together and beat one or two minutes with electric mixer:
3 cups flour
1-1/2 tsp salt
1-1/2 tsp baking powder
2-1/4 cups sugar
1-1/2 T. poppy seed
3 eggs
1-1/2 cups milk
1 cup oil
1-1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1-1/2 tsp almond extract
1-1/2 tsp butter extract
Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour two loaf pans. Pour batter into loaf pans and bake for an hour or until toothpick comes clean.
(There is a glaze recipe that goes with it, but we’ve never made it. I think poppy seed bread is yummy enough on it’s own, and you don’t need any more calories, do you?!)
The kids are fans.
I love this picture of them-so cute! They seem to really be enjoying their treat! I’ll have to make this sometime. thanks for the recipe!
OK, your mom can verify, but I am almost positive (but willing to be corrected) that this poppyseed bread recipe is actually one I gave her because I used to bake this every Christmas. I’m pretty sure she got a loaf or two during my tenure at Mizzou. ‘Still (sad to admit) it’s very “old”…at least to you. HAHAH But if my memory serves me, my own mother snipped it from the newspaper—really not the “old family recipe passed down from ages gone by” as much as I would have liked. Yummy all the same…….