Amish friendship bread recipe
Day 1 — Receive the starter (the recipe for the starter is below)
Day 2 — Stir
Day 3 — Stir
Day 4 — Stir
Day 5 — Add 1 cup each flour, sugar and milk.
Day 6 — Stir
Day 7 — Stir
Day 8 — Stir
Day 9 — Stir
Day 10 — Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Divide into four containers, with 1 cup each for three of your friends and 1 cup for your own loaves. Give friends the instructions for Day 1 through Day 10 and the following recipe for baking the bread.
After removing the 3 cups of batter, combine the remaining cup of Amish Friendship Bread starter with the following ingredients in a large bowl:
• 2/3 cup oil
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Using a fork beat by hand until well-blended. You can add 1 cup raisins and 1 cup nuts (optional).
Grease two loaf pans with butter, sprinkle with sugar instead of flour.
Bake at 325 degrees F for 45 minutes to 1 hour (individual oven temperatures vary). Cool 10 minutes, remove from pans. Makes two loaves of Amish Friendship Bread.
Amish friendship bread starter
This is the Amish Friendship Bread Starter Recipe that you’ll need to make the Amish Friendship Bread (above). It is very important to use plastic or wooden utensils and plastic or glass containers when making this. Do not use metal at all.
• 1 package active dry yeast
• 1/4 cup warm water (110 degrees F.)
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup warm milk (110 degrees F.)
In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in warm water for about 10 minutes. Stir well.
In a 2-quart glass or plastic container, combine 1 cup sifted flour and 1 cup sugar. Mix thoroughly or the flour will get lumpy when you add the milk.
Slowly stir in warm milk and dissolved yeast mixture. Loosely cover the mixture with a lid or plastic wrap. The mixture will get bubbly. Consider this Day 1 of the cycle, or the day you receive the starter.
For the next 10 days, handle starter according to the instructions above for Amish friendship bread.
These are a few of our family’s favorite variations on the recipe, Crickon said.
Chocolate cherry Amish friendship bread
Omit cinnamon from the basic recipe.
Replace the vanilla flavoring with almond flavoring.
Add 1 5.1-ounce box of instant chocolate pudding, an additional 1/2 cup milk, 3 teaspoons cocoa and 1 can tart red cherries in water, drained.
Pumpkin spice Amish friendship bread
When making the basic recipe, reduce oil to 1/3 cup. Reduce cinnamon to 1 teaspoon. Use brown sugar instead of white sugar.
Add 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice. Before baking, stir in 1 cup canned pumpkin.
Lemon Amish friendship bread
Substitute lemon extract for the vanilla flavoring.
To the basic recipe, add 1 box of lemon pudding and an additional 1/2 cup milk. Omit the cinnamon and nuts, and add 1/4 cup of poppy seeds.
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