It was my grand-grand-mothers 104th birthday – incredible isn’t it !?! Although I sadly couldn’t see her this time I made some poppy seed slices, similar to the ones she used to bake , when she had a Viennese pastry shop in the 1940’s.
One thing she always tells me is to mix the poppy seeds with semolina, as the taste is amazing and back then poppy seeds were really expensive. I tried and she’s right – It was absolutely delicious…
Thanks grand-grandma

Poppy Seed Slices
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Ingredients:
*1/2 liter milk(I used soya milk)
*4 tablespoons honey
*1 sachet of vanilla sugar
*200g poppy seeds
*100g semolina
*200g puff pastry
*2 egg whites
*120g powdered sugar
*100g  chopped almonds
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Preheat the oven @ 180ºC
Cook the milk together with the honey and vanilla sugar, then add the semolina and cook for 5 min, while stiring. Add the poppy seeds and let cook ’til the mixture gets thick – stir while cooking.
Line a small squared backing pan with baking paper and roll the puff pastry on it. You might need to grease the sides of the pan.
Spread the poppy seed mix on it and bake for 20-25 minutes.
In the meantime beat the egg whites with the powdered sugar until stiff and put on top of the poppy seed after baking. Spread some chopped almonds on it and bake again for 5min
Cut the slices in your favourite shape and let cool well before eating

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Something I really miss are the Poppy Seed cakes in Germany.
I remember my uncle buying a suitcase full of Poppy Seed Baking Mixes everytime he visited Germany.
I managed to find Poppy Seeds in a small herb shop in Gracia and combined them with sweet pears and marzipan…Still warm it’s delicious!

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