Blue Ribbon Poppy Seed Cheese Bread Recipes

POPPY SEED CHEESE BREAD

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast and sugar in water. Combine milk, shortening and salt; stir into yeast mixture. Add enough flour to form a soft dough. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 3 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1-1/2 hours. , Punch down dough; press into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 45 minutes., Preheat oven to 425°. Combine cheese, egg, milk and onion; spread over dough. Sprinkle with poppy seeds. Bake 15-20 minutes. Cut into squares; serve warm.

BLUE RIBBON POPPY SEED CHEESE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour, baking powder, mustard and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. Fold in cheese, onion and poppy seeds., Transfer to a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan; sprinkle with paprika. Bake 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

POPPY SEED BREAD II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 8x4 inch loaf pans.
• Mix the flour, salt, baking powder, eggs, milk, vegetable oil, white sugar, poppy seeds, 1 1/2 teaspoons of the vanilla, lemon and butter flavoring. Stir until just combined and pour the batter into the prepared pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour. Cool for 5 minutes then poke holes in the top of the bread with a meat fork and pour glaze over tops.
• To Make Glaze: Mix the orange juice, confectioner's sugar, and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon each of the vanilla, butter and lemon flavorings. Use immediately to pour over the still warm loaves.

POPPY SEED BREAD III

Steps:

• Mix together the flour, 2 1/4 cups white sugar, baking powder, salt, milk, 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla and eggs. Mix in the vegetable oil, poppy seeds, 1 1/2 teaspoons butter flavoring and 1 1/2 teaspoons almond flavoring. Beat with an electric mixer for 1 to 2 minutes.
• Lightly grease 2 loaf pans or 6 small loaf pans. Bake 45-60 minutes at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Cool for 3 minutes and top with the orange glaze.
• To make Orange Glaze: Mix together 1/4 cup orange juice, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 teaspoon butter flavoring and 1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring.

SWISS POPPY SEED BREAD

Steps:

• Cut loaf of French bread into 10 slices, 3/4 of the way through.
• Insert slices of Swiss Cheese between each of the bread slices.
• Saute onion in butter until transparent, not brown.
• Add poppy seed to butter.
• Spoon butter/onion/poppy seed mixture between the slices of bread and cheese.
• Wrap in foil.
• Bake at 300 degrees until the cheese melts and the bread is hot throughout, about 20-25 minutes.

POPPY-SEED ONION CHEDDAR BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9- by 5- by 3-inch loaf pan, knocking out excess flour.
• Chop onions and in a large skillet cook in butter with 1/2 teaspoon salt over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until softened and pale golden, about 15 minutes. Cool onions.
• Into a bowl sift together flour, cornmeal, mustard, baking powder, and remaining teaspoon salt. Stir in poppy seeds and Cheddar. In a small bowl lightly beat eggs and stir in milk. Add milk mixture and onion mixture to flour mixture, stirring until just combined.
• Pour batter into loaf pan. Bake bread 1 1/4 hours, or until a tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool bread in pan on a rack 10 minutes. Turn out bread onto rack and cool completely.

JESSE CATES POPPY SEED BREAD

Steps:

• Combine dry ingredients and poppy seeds in large bowl, blending well.
• Mix oil, milk, vanilla and eggs in separate bowl.
• Add dry ingredients to liquid ingredients. Mix at medium speed until smooth, about 4 minutes, scraping the bowl often.
• Pour into 2 8x4 inch greased pans, or a 9x11 inch cake pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour 25 minutes, or until test done with a toothpick and is golden. (I usually bake them for closer to an hour, so keep an eye on them.).