In a small bowl beat 3 eggs and oil.
Add evaporated milk and vanilla and blend together.
In a large bowl mix together flour, sugar, poppy seeds, and baking powder.
Pour small bowl's contents into large bowl and beat until smooth.
Pour into 2 greased and floured bread pans.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes.
Yield: 5 small 5 ¾ in. x 3 ¼ in. loaves of bread
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For as long as I can remember, I have been helping my mom bake poppy seed bread to give to our friends for Christmas. She loves to listen to music, so we put on Christmas music while we're baking and sing along. We get all the ingredients out and put them on the counter. Then I measure everything out, using measuring cups, and dump the ingredients into a large bowl. When I was really little, she would crack the eggs, but when I help her now, she lets me do it.
Once everything is in the big bowl, we both mix it all together. We make 10 loaves of bread at a time so there is a lot of batter we have to mix. I love how the whole kitchen smells good while the bread is baking and how the oven makes the kitchen warm and toasty.
My mom buys little tins to fit a small loaf of bread and we wrap them up with holiday plastic wrap and put a bow on top. We then give the bread to our neighbors, my bus driver and teacher (when I was in school back home), my boss, and a few of our family friends as a nice Christmas present. Without a lot of extra money, it is a perfect gift to give to the people we care about.
My whole family loves the bread, so we keep a few loaves for our home and eat it on Christmas morning. We cut the loaf into little pieces and then eat then for breakfast, toasted with butter. Everyone loves my mom's homemade bread and so she started making it for Thanksgiving a couple years ago because my aunts and uncles were begging for it. I can't wait to go home for Thanksgiving my first semester in college and have some bread with my whole family.
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