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Poppyseed Cake

This poppy seed cake comes from a handwritten cookery book of the Ripper family from Bölten (Belotin) in the Sudetenland. The family was expelled from the so-called "Kuhländchen" (Moravia) after the Second World War in August 1946 and settled in Runkel/Hesse. The original recipe uses the measurement in decagrams that was common in Austria and Bohemia and Moravia at the time. A shortcrust pastry base was not included in the recipe for the poppy seed cake, as this was assumed to be known. There was a shortcrust pastry recipe in the same cookery book, but unfortunately large parts of it have been lost forever due to the brittle paper. For this reason, we are using a comparable poppy seed tart shortcrust pastry base, which is recommended in Sophie Wilhelmine Scheibler's General German Cookery Book for All Estates, published in 1894.

Duration: 2 hours

Amount: Serves 12

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Ingredients:

For the shortcrust pastry:

375 grams flour

170 grams butter, cold

100-120 grams sugar

Zest of one small lemon

1 egg

2 egg yolks

1 egg yolk, hard-boiled and passed through a sieve

For the cake filling:

210 grams butter

250 grams of sugar

7 eggs

1 vanilla pod

100 grams brown almonds, ground

960 grams poppy seeds, freshly ground

Method:

1. Mix all the dough ingredients very quickly to form a smooth dough.

2. Scald the 960 g poppy seeds with boiling water.

2. Then finely grate the strained poppy seeds in a poppyseed grinding bowl or a poppy seed mill.

3. Add the sugar and melted butter.

4. Stir in the 7 egg yolks, the vanilla pulp and the ground almonds.

5. Finally, fold the 7 stiffly beaten egg whites into the poppy seed mixture.

6. Spread the poppy seed mixture over the shortcrust pastry in the tin.

7. Bake the tart in a moderately hot oven at 180 °C for about 30 minutes until nicely coloured.

Tip: If you don't have a poppy seed grinder or poppy seed mill, you can use a high-performance blender as an alternative.

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