Amish Friendship Bread

Just shy of two weeks ago, one of my co-workers brought in a Ziploc bag of deliciousness. Amish friendship bread starter. I've always been intrigued with baking bread with a starter but never knew anyone to get some from and was always really unsure how to start my own. But when I came in for my shift and saw the Ziploc with a note on it for me, I was jumping for joy!!! So after 10 days I was finally able to bake my bread, however after reading the recipe to complete it I wasn't really sure about it because it called for 1 package of vanilla instant pudding mix . . . . yuck. I can not bring myself to use instant vanilla pudding mix, it's grossed me out since I was a kid so there was no way it was going into my bread. So after searching around online for another alternative, I meshed a few recipe into one and the results were good!!

Amish Bread Starter method -

Day 1-5 Remove air and mash bag.
Day 6 Add 1 cup each of flour, sugar and milk, mash bag.
Day 7-9 Remove air mash bag.
Day 10 Add 1 1/2 cups each of flour, sugar and milk. Scale out 4 1 cup measure into separate bags to give to friends, keep one for yourself.



Amish Friendship Bread

remaining bread starter
2/3 cup veg oil
1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/4 tsp baking powder

optional -
1/2 cup raisins, craisins or chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped nuts

Mix all ingredients together in a quick-bread method and pour into a greased and sugar loaf pan. Bake at 350 for 1hr 15 min or until a skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool before slicing (if you can resist it!! I didn't!!). Makes one dense sweet almost pound cake like loaf.