Orange Poppy Tea Bread Recipes

POPPY SEED TEA BREAD WITH ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Spray two 9x5x3 inch metal loaf pans with Pam. Bring 1 c sugar, orange juice and orange peel to boil in heavy small saucepan over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. This is the orange glaze - set aside to cool. Using electric mixer, beat remaining 2 1/3 c sugar, oil, eggs, almond extract in large bowl until pale yellow and thick, about 5 minutes. Add flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly add milk. Stir in poppy seeds. Divide batter between the two pans. Bake until toothpick comes out clean, about 1 hour. Transfer pans to work surface. Using long toothpick, poke holes in each bread all over. Gradually spoon reserved orange glaze over hot breads in pans, dividing equally and allowing glaze to absorb after each addition. Cool breads completely in pans. To de-pan, run a knife along edge of breads to loosen. Invert onto platter.

ORANGE-POPPY TEA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
• In a large bowl, beat sour cream, sugar and butter with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, poppy seeds, orange rind, and orange juice until well mixed.
• Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Beat at low speed, scraping down sides of bowl occasionally, until combined.
• Spoon batter into greased loaf pan and bake 50-55 minutes or until center springs back when lightly pressed with fingertip. Cool in pan on wire rack for about 5 minutes, then remove bread from pan and cool completely. Wrap and plastic wrap and let sit overnight.
• To serve, place tea bread on serving plate and cut into slices.

ORANGE AND POPPY SEED STOLLEN

Steps:

• Make filling:
• Put the sultanas into a mixing bowl. Chop the candied citrus peel into small dice and add to the sultanas. Finely grate the zest from the orange and add to the bowl. Squeeze in the juice of the orange, pour in the rum or brandy and vanilla, then toss together and leave for an hour.
• Make dough:
• Melt the butter in a small pan, then leave to cool down. Put the flour into a large mixing bowl. No need to sieve it. If using fresh yeast, warm the milk to body temperature (it should feel comfortable rather than cold or scalding when you insert your finger), then crumble in the yeast and stir to dissolve. Add the sugar and salt to the flour and mix well. Beat the egg. Stir in the egg and the warm milk and butter. (If you are using dried yeast, add the yeast straight to the flour, then stir in the other ingredients followed by the warm milk, egg and butter.)
• Mix thoroughly-the dough should be soft, shiny and rather sticky. In all honesty it may be very sticky. Turn out on to a generously floured board and knead for a good eight minutes. As you knead, the dough will become less and less sticky and more like a bread dough-though it will be heavier because of the butter and egg. When the dough is soft, elastic and no longer sticking to the board, scoop it up and put it into a floured bowl. Set aside, covered with a clean tea towel, somewhere warm and draught-free for a good hour or until it is well risen. (It won't be quite twice the size of the original dough but well on the way.) Alternatively, mix and knead using a food mixer fitted with a dough hook until the dough comes cleanly away from the sides of the bowl.
• Assemble:
• Break the cardamom pods open and remove their seeds. Crush the seeds to a coarse powder using a pestle and mortar or a spice mill, then mix in a small bowl with the poppy seeds, cinnamon and almonds. Dust the work surface in the flour and tip your risen dough onto it. Knead the spice and seed mixture and the soaked fruits, leaving behind most of the liquid, into the dough.
• Roll into a long loaf about 22cmx16cm and flatten it slightly: Roll the marzipan into a cylinder nearly the length of the dough, then place it in the centre. Brush the edges with a little beaten egg and press together. Turn the dough over and place it on a lined baking sheet, cover with a towel and return it to a warm place to prove for a further hour and a half.
• Heat the oven to 350°F/180°C/Gas 4. Place the loaf in the hot oven and bake for about thirty-five to forty minutes, until pale gold. Melt the butter for the glaze and brush over the loaf. Cool on a wire rack, then dust generously with icing sugar.
• To Keep
• When the loaf is thoroughly cool, wrap loosely in waxed paper or clingfilm and keep in a cookie tin.

ORANGE-POPPY SEED BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom only of loaf pan, 8 1/2x4 1/2x2 1/2 inches or 9x5x3 inches, with shortening. In large bowl, mix all Bread ingredients with spoon; beat 30 seconds. Pour into pan.
• Bake 8-inch loaf 45 to 55 minutes, 9-inch loaf 40 to 50 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• In small bowl, mix powdered sugar and milk until smooth and thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle over loaf, allowing some to drizzle down sides.

ORANGE-POPPY SEED BREAD

Steps:

• Mix all bread ingredients in large bowl for 2 minutes at high speed of electric mixer.
• Pour into greased and floured pans (either Bundt or 2 loaf) and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. LEAVE IN PAN!
• Mix all glaze ingredients in small bowl.
• While bread is still hot, poke holes all over in bread with skewer or other implement.
• Pour glaze over hot bread. Let sit until hardened.
• This sets up with a hard, crunchy sugar glaze on the outside.
• Can use lemon as well, if preferred.

CRANBERRY ORANGE TEA BREAD

Steps:

• Combine flour, dried cranberries, sugar and baking powder in large mixing bowl.
• In separate bowl, mix together remaining ingredients. Blend applesauce mixture into flour mixture until just combined. Spoon batter into greased loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F 45-50 minutes, until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan before removing loaf to cool completely on wire rack.

ORANGE-ALMOND POPPY SEED BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a large loaf pan.
• Combine flour, salt, and baking powder in a bowl. Beat 2 1/4 cups sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs in another bowl until smooth. Stir milk, poppy seeds, 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 1/2 teaspoon almond extract, and 1 1/2 teaspoon butter extract into egg mixture. Add flour mixture; mix until batter is just moistened. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes.
• Whisk 3/4 cup sugar, orange juice, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/2 teaspoon almond extract, and 1/2 teaspoon butter extract in a bowl until smooth. Pour orange juice glaze over hot poppy seed loaf.

POPPY SEED BREAD WITH ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In a small bowl, whisk the eggs, milk, oil, poppy seeds, butter flavoring and extracts. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened., Transfer to 2 greased and floured 9x5-in. loaf pans. Bake at 350° until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 55-60 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Combine glaze ingredients; drizzle over warm loaves.