ready for coffee & cake, yeah I put it on the cafe one too
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heres another “off the wall” one, this is a baking contest one from Britian! (the great British bake off)
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What is the filling braided bun (can’t find a better description)? It looks so tasty.
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If you’re referring to pictures 1 and 2, it’s bread.
Bread dough made with yeast, left to rise, I divided it into 4 parts. Each part of the dough was stretched, smeared with melted butter and poppy (the poppy was ground and then boiled in milk until it swelled - like a cream), then I sprinkled seeds of: sunflower, pumpkin, flax, sesame. It is rolled tightly, then I make the braid, let it grow again and then bake it.
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Sounds even better than it looks, and sounds like something I would like to try to bake at home. 
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You didn’t soak the seeds?
The Swiss soft bread is also braided (I didn’t use sugar), I made recently one, but I’d like to try a multigrain bread with seeds.
I watched this video where seeds are soaked:
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The poppy seeds were ground and boiled in milk, enough to swell and become almost like a cream, I leave it to cool.
I spread the “poppy cream” on the side that was previously smeared with melted butter, in this way, the other seeds, being dry, take enough moisture from the poppy and the butter .
Oh, I also make bread with wheat bran, rye flakes etc., but I mainly make polenta with corn flour.
The videos are ok, many do this 
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BAY LEAVES
Many ladies add bay leaves to their foods, especially in the cooking of red meat and poultry. Many don’t know why bay leaves are added to food!
When a woman was asked why, she said, “to flavor the food”. If you boil the bay leaves in a glass of water and taste it, it will have no flavor. So why do you put bay leaves in the meat or other food?
The addition of bay leaves to meat converts triglycerides to monounsaturated fats and, for experimentation and confirmation:
#Cut a chicken into two halves, cook each half in a separate pan and place on one a bay leaf, and cook the other without a bay leaf. Observe the amount of fat in both pans after cooking!
If you have bay leaves, there is no need for a pharmacy, as recent scientific studies have shown that bay leaves have many benefits:
They help to get rid of many serious health problems and illnesses.
The benefits of bay leaf
They treat digestive disorders and help eliminate -
•Lumps
•Heartburn
•Acidity
•Constipation
Hot bay tea:
• regulates bowel movements
•lowers blood sugar
•is an antioxidant
By eating them, or by drinking bay tea for a month, the body is able to:
•produce insulin
•eliminate bad cholesterol
•relieve the body of triglycerides.
is useful in treating colds, flu and severe coughs, as it is a rich source of vitamin “C”. You can boil the leaves and inhale steam to get rid of phlegm and reduce the severity of coughs.
Bay leaf protects the heart from seizures and strokes, as they contain cardiovascular protective compounds.
Is rich in acids such as caffeic acid, quercetin, eigonol and bartolinide, substances that prevent the formation of cancer cells in the body.
eliminates insomnia and anxiety. If taken before bed, helps you relax and sleep peacefully.
drinking a cup of boiled bay leaves twice a day breaks down kidney stones and cures infections.
Don’t just read and leave in your in box. Forward, for others’ benefit! 
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Wow! Who would have known that, I know many herbal benefits of other herbs or food, but I have never thought about bay leaf benefits and I thought it’s just to flavor food… oh my a little leaf for all needs 
thanks for sharing this!! 
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My thoughts too, I grew up knowing to use for cooking, never knew the added benefits at all. 
When I shared, my classmate 
back home, says, she’s been drinking the tea. 
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Everyday is a learning day I think back then the knowledge wasn’t either known or not that spread, as there are new methods to research, we will learn more.
Ever heard of Holy Basil? I have a huge stash I got from Organic India.
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I absolutely love seeing this, here.
I use different herbs and what some consider weeds (dandelion, nettles and so on) in my cooking and as medicine but there are so much I still don’t know or even think about.
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I picked on Saturday dandelion blooms and made a syrup, I probably used too much water to infuse the blooms, but it still turned out ok, just expected more flavor. Nettles too, those are now drying for tea.
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I made yesterday a marble cake. You can substitute butter milk with milk, I used 3/4 cup sugar and you can mix a bit with stevia or birch sugar. I used the organic cacao powder I got at Walmart.
I used also r a p eseed oil (sunflower oil works too) instead of butter. There are many various recipes online but this one is the closest I made and is about the Swiss recipe I learnt at school. I did use the loaf baking pan but the round one is okay as well. - I left it too long in the oven cos I forgot to set the timer… it turned out a tiny bit dry, so watch out!
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Oh dandelion honey ! I loved it when i was kid ! made of yellow flowers I also liked Dandelion Jelly ! The steam to be precise the milk a like liquid we use as quick aid to small burns. The roots when the flowers are yellow we dry and use as tea, leaves for salads and creamy type of soups as well. The roots when flower is silver flying seeds type we use mixed with wax as eczema and psoriasis or any skin issue healing cream. Dandelions have million life’s
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I made dandelion oil last year and tincture can be made as well. You harvest roots usually in fall leaving many for next year and they are washed and cut and dried, some can be even roasted and it’s an coffee alternative like chicory root.
Mother nature gives us a bounty of useful plants and we need to appreciate them!
I collected in forest woodruff and try to plant it in my community garden shaded spot, I’m just reading about its uses.
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On Friday I have plans to make my own pasta (got the recommendation on our ■■■■■■■ when I asked for egg recipes) and serv it with nettles. It’s so much that’s slowly coming up in the garden right now.
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wow dandelion oil ! do you use it for salads or can be used as frying oil ? now am curious. thanks for sharing .
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Did you notice the cover up of what ever you wrote that Discourse didn’t like, it’s a censorship… it happened to me earlier with “r a p e seed” oil, I had to use space in order to write it… oh gosh… where is the limit
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