Blue Poppy 500g by Hatton Hill - Certified

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Blue Poppy 500g by Hatton Hill ally grown in Turkey. Packed in the UK * Soil Association Certificated Hatton Hill blue poppy lend a sweetness to baking, on bread, rolls, muffins, and cake. Also great for fruit salad dressing. For a change toast blue poppy with cumin and add to a carrot salad - completely delicious... Poppy have a high, flavourful oil content with a mild, nutty taste. blue poppy come from the poppy , Papaver somniferum. Poppy s are both annuals and perennials that grow to about 1.2m (4ft) high. The poppy s have flowers that blossom in a myriad of colours from white through to pink. After flowering, the seed forms as a rounded, papery-looking woody with a multi-pointed crown at the top, with small holes around the rim. Inside the centre of the , there are several chambers containing hundreds and hundreds of small of no more than a millimetre in diameter. The are mechanically removed when the seed heads turn yellow-brown, the are dried then removed from the s to create the blue poppy . blue poppy have little aroma except when you open a new bag when you get a waft of nutty, oily aromas, while the taste is a mild and slight nuttiness. For more about blue poppy, dig into Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages. Poppy are usually used in baking, either through breads or sprinkled over the edge of bread or the outside of savoury or sweet biscuits. Blue poppy are ground to a paste with honey or liquid sugar to create the fillings for strudels and other pastries, or try this delicious recipe at Smitten Kitten for a Poppy Seed Lemon Cake. Poppy are also tasty added into vinaigrette or sprinkled over courgettes and potatoes or through salads to add an extra crunchy and nutty dimension to the salad leaves.