Walnut Poppy Bread – Souvenir with Pear

Even though the cold weather has had an effect on me and continues its attempts to make the bed mattress sick, I take some medicine and hug the memories of the summer and warm up when I'm cold. Today I remembered Armutlu, which I went to last summer, as it is close to Istanbul, and makes you feel like you are in your grandfather's garden in your village. I searched and scanned the photos that I made archiving a habit on my computer, and I took a look at the photos of last summer. It was as if the smell of earth in every photo, the texture of fresh fruit in every photo, the memory of childhood appeared in every photo.

It's not just me, I wanted you to stay warm while browsing the Kitchen Secrets pages in your home on these cold winter days, and I decided to share the photos with you.

My tiny footprints, which I left on the soil of the gardens where I ran when I was little, are now filled with red and purple blackberries. Armutlu is still a village place. Almost every single-storey house has a garden, and every garden has a forest. It is full of fruit trees and each tree is different from the other, from olives, pears, figs, grapes, plums to blackberry branches that get stuck on your feet and ankles while walking around the garden.

While I was wandering among the fruit trees, I kept thinking, if there is anything like childhood. neighborhood neighborhood

running around, we would enter other people's orchards. It was as if life consisted only of reaching for a fruit-filled upper branch while picking the fruits hanging from its branches. As Cezmi Ersöz said, money, tariffs, expectations, appointments, installments, work, mothers and fears did not exist in life… It was as if other people were not living there. My only concern was to climb the tree and get down without falling. Of course, he was able to climb that tree without being seen by anyone. If the owner of the garden saw me and his friends, he could chase me to the other neighborhood with a broken tree branch.

Actually, that was the beauty of it. If the man calls us and says, "Come, let me collect it and give it to you, you are bored." If he washes the fruits picked from the tree and gives them ready for us. I don't think any of us will enjoy it. You know, where is his excitement, his dirty eating of the fruit that you plucked the thorns from among those branches.

Now I've grown up... I don't need to go in secret to be able to walk in the gardens of Armutlu and eat its fruits, it's enough to say Selamınaleyküm Aghas. They say come and collect them from the garden, old grandmothers and grandfathers. "Come and collect them, they are always spilled on the ground, they rot away before anyone can eat them, come and collect them, as much as you want." Even if it's a little sad, I'm happy to go in and collect those beautiful fresh ones. One can relax and get away from the chaos then. Even from the chaos, noise, pollution, smoke, soot, and all the evils of the city. When you see the small, cute, red blackberry on its branch looking at you, you become happy, you taste the earth while the sun warms your face.

Armutlu village consists of mansions and olive groves. There are no single-storey houses by the sea anymore, and complexes with or without pools have always been built. In the past, there was only transportation by ferry or by road. Now, transportation has been facilitated by seabuses that are put in summer and winter. The length of the cordon, which used to be gravel, was widened and lengthened by pouring a lot of concrete. In short, there is not much left of the word untouched. However, every summer, I escape for a few days to trace my childhood there, to green lush gardens… I adapted the poppy walnut bread I ate in one of those gardens into the bread machine for you. Here you go, eat with pleasure, love to all of you...

for 1000 gr

Bread recipe:

• Wholegrain bread flour mix
• 140 ml. This
• 140 ml of milk
• 1,5 tablespoons of oil
• 2 teaspoon of sugar
• some walnuts
• some poppy seeds
• 1 Pack Instant Yeast

Fabrication :

1. First, we put the water and milk in the bowl of the bread machine.
2. After adding the butter and sugar, we pour the flour mixture and the last yeast on it, set a 3-hour program in the machine, and select the bread crust and 750 gr options.
3. After the dough has gathered itself a little, we open the lid and add walnuts and poppy into it.
4. You can plant poppy seeds on it when the last hour signals additional material.

Key point: If you want your bread to be brighter. Fill a heatproof bowl with water and place it in a corner of the bread machine.

Enjoy your meal