Poppy Factory Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, who had created the Haig Fund to assist ex-servicemen and which still raises funds through the UK's annual poppy appeal. It grew from two employees in a former wood-chopping factory in the grounds of Whitefoord House to employ over 100 people by the mid-1930s, with a waiting list of over 300. In addition to the main task of making poppies, the employees made other goods by hand which were sold at three shops in Edinburgh and by a travelling shop throughout Scotland. The factory moved to its current premises, a former printing works,
Poppy seed cuisines. The states of former Yugoslavia (notably Macedonia and Serbia, but also Croatia and Bosnia) have a long tradition of preparing poppy seed pastry (strudel, baklava, pajgle) and dishes (pasta with poppy seeds). In Poland, Lithuania and Eastern Slovakia, a traditional dessert is prepared for the "Kūčios" (Christmas Eve) dinner from poppy seeds. They are ground and mixed with water or milk; round yeast biscuits ("kūčiukai" in Lithuanian; "opekance" or "bobalky" in Slovak) are soaked in the resulting poppy seed 'milk' (poppy milk) and served cold. In Central Europe, poppy strudel is very popular, especially during Christmas. In Germany, Poland