RECIPE AND PHOTO SUBMITTED BY Andy Blackstock
*Almond Poppy Seed Sweet Bread -W- cooked Vanilla orange Glaze*
I bake for several of my senior neighborhood ladies and every now and then I get a recipe from one of them. This is one of those recipes. The sweet lady I got it from said she got it from her mother when she got married in 1954, so I don’t know how old it is but Good Lord have mercy it’s wonderful. Printable PDF> https://drive.google.com/…/0B-e0zqA_r4cCRmxjNm5BRG1wV…/view…
Bread Ingredients
2 ½ cups white sugar
3 eggs room temperature
1 ¼ cup cooking oil
1 ½ cups buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ½ teaspoon almond extract
3 tablespoon poppy seeds
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
Glaze ingredients
½ cup pulp free 100% orange juice
¾ cup white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon almond extract
Cake Directions. Preheat oven to 350° and grease 2- 9×5 inch bread pans. In one bowl sift together flour, baking powder and salt, set aside. In your mixing bowl whisk sugar and eggs together. Add oil and milk and continue to whisk until well blended. Add your flour mixture and whisk just until incorporated, scraping sides of bowl often. Add both extracts and poppy seeds and whisk until blended. Pour batter into prepared bread pans and bake 45 to 50 minutes
Glaze Directions. In small sauce combine orange juice and sugar and bring to a low bowl while whisking. Remove from heat whisk in extracts and cover. When sweet bread is done remove and allow to cool on rack for at least 15 minutes before you turn out. Using a fork poke several holes in the top of bread and pour glaze on top. Allow to completely cool before serving.
**Cooking notes**. I always wait to cook my glaze until I am letting my sweetbread cool. Put waxed paper under sweet bread before glazing to help with cleanup. If you only need one loaf, when sweet bread is completely cooled, wrap in plastic wrap and it will stay moist longer. Watch for a deal on poppy seeds they are expensive at full retail.
Hope you Enjoy, Andy.
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