Recipe for "poppycake"

NAME

     POPPYCAKE - A light, delicate cake
     I got this recipe from my mom. I'm not sure  where  she  got
     it.

INGREDIENTS (1 bundt cake)

     225 g     butter or margarine
     300 g     sugar
     250 g     flour (sift before measuring)
     5 ml      baking soda
     10 ml     baking powder
     250 ml    buttermilk
     60 g      poppy seeds
     5 ml      almond extract (or vanilla extract)
     4         eggs (separated)
     50 g      brown sugar
     5 ml      cinnamon

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Soak poppyseed in the buttermilk for 15 minutes.
          (2)  Cream together butter and  sugar.   Add  yolks  to
               creamed mixture.  Add almond extract or vanilla.
          (3)  Add dry ingredients  alternately  with  buttermilk
               mixture, a little at a time.
          (4)  Beat egg whites very  stiff  as  for  angel  food.
               Fold egg whites into mixture.
          (5)  Pour half of this batter mixture into well-greased
               Bundt pan.
          (6)  Sprinkle with a mixture of 50 g brown sugar and  5
               ml cinnamon.
          (7)  Pour in remaining batter.
          (8)  Bake at 175 deg. C for 1 hour.
          (9)  Cool and invert onto  serving  dish,  then  remove
               Bundt pan.

NOTES

     When folding in egg whites, be gentle.  Lift  and  turn  the
     batter instead of using a stirring motion.  Don't worry if a
     little bit of egg white remains unmixed; the egg whites will
     collapse if you mix it too much.
     I have tried both vanilla  and  almond  extracts  with  this
     recipe, and prefer the former.

RATING

     Difficulty: easy to moderate (folding the  beaten  eggwhites
     into  the  batter  takes  some  skill).   Time:  30  minutes
     preparation, 1 hour cooking,  1  hour  cooling.   Precision:
     Measure carefully.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
     "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."
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