Poppy Longstocking Lemon Curd Crêpes #BlendsBash2022 #Sponsored

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I received complimentary product for the purpose of review and recipe development, 

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My contact at The Book Club Cookbook emailed, asking if I would be interested in trying our a couple of their new spice blends for #BlendsBash2022. Of course! I am always up for some culinary adventure; and when it ties reading to cooking...well, let's just say I will make time in my calendar for that no matter what. 

So, I perused the choices - of their Book Blends, TV Blends, and Song Blends - decided on Poppy Longstocking, Late Show with Stephen Clove-bert, The Romaines of the Day. I have always loved their clever play on words for all of the blends, especially Don't Stop Bayleave-ing, Dried and Prejudice, and A Wrinkle in Thyme.

Pippi Långstrump

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I have always loved Pippi Långstrump, the Swedish name for Pippi Longstocking. She is a spunky, fun character in an eponymous series by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. I remember my mom reading me these books when we lived in The Netherlands. And, fittingly enough, these are Dutch poppy seeds.

I tried to figure out how I wanted to use the poppy seeds and decided that I liked the combination of lemon and poppy seeds. But I didn't just want to make cookies or a cake. So I settled on adding the poppy seeds to crêpes and filling them with a homemade lemon curd. These were a perfect brunch dish on Sunday morning.

If you have never made them, I posted a video for an easy Mothers' Day dish on our Culinary Cam YouTube channel. You can watch it there...or here.

 Poppy Longstocking Lemon Curd Crêpes

Ingredients makes approximately one dozen

• 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups organic whole milk
• dash of ground cardamom
• 1 teaspoon poppy seeds 
• 1/2 teaspoon pure lemon extract
• butter, for cooking
• For serving: lemon curd such as in this post a trio of citrus curds

Procedure

Whisk all of the ingredients together until lump-free. Let sit for at least 30 minutes. Heat a large flat-bottom pan and rub the bottom with butter. Pour the batter into the pan and quickly make a tilting motion to distribute the batter all over the pan. The goal: have as thin a batter layer as possible.

Cook until the crêpe is a bit stiff and flip over, cooking for another minute The pancake should be lightly browned on both sides. Repeat till all the batter is used; I made 12 crêpes with the quantities listed above.

Let everyone assemble their own crêpes. We usually roll ours, but to maximize the lemon curd to crêpe ratio, I folded these into quarters for serving.

Stay tuned for recipes using the other two spice blends I received. I will be posting again on November 21st and December 12th. Can't wait!

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