Pantry guide
Best Poppy seed for home cooking
What Poppy seed is for, which kitchens use it, and where to find a jar worth cooking with.
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Blue or white: filling for a German roll, thickener for a Bengali curry.
In German cooking, Poppy seed is not decoration. Add it where the recipe puts it: early if it needs fat and time, late if it is perfume.
Taste Poppy seed before you empty the spoon. Fresh jars smell like themselves; tired ones smell like dust. Buy the smallest amount you will finish.
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