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Sprinkle Sugar or Hail Sugar

4 servings

Ingredients

• 125 g poppy seeds
• 125 g sugar
• water (a little)

Instructions

1. Place the poppy seeds in a shallow bowl.
2. Cook the sugar, previously dipped in water.
3. As soon as it is no longer hot, spoon it onto the poppy seeds and stir with your palm until it begins to cool; repeat this 6-8 times until all the sugar is used up.
4. The sprinkle sugar can be harmlessly colored as described for icing.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.