Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Amish Friendship Bread

Do not refridgerate! Do not use any metal spoon or bowl when mixing. When air gets in the bag, let it out. It is normal for the batter to rise, bubble and ferment.

Day 1: Do nothing (this may be the day you got the batter, go by the dates on the bag.
Day 2: Mush the bag
Day 3: Mush the bag
Day 4: Mush the bag
Day 5: Mush the bag
Day 6: Add 1 C. Sugar, 1 C. Flour, 1 C. milk, then mush the bag
Day 7: Mush the bag
Day 8: mush the bag
Day 9: mush the bag
Day 10: Follow these instructions...

1. Pour entire contents into a non-metal bowl.
2. Add 1 1/2 C. flour, 1 1/2 C. sugar, 1 1/2 C. milk (the mixture will be lumpy but that's ok.
3. Measure out 4 seperate batters of 1 C. each into 4 1 gallon ziploc bags. Keep a starter for yourself and give the other 3 to friends along with a copy of the recipe. Mark the bags with the dates of days 1,6 and 10. Day 1 is the day AFTER you baked.
4. preheat oven to 350 degrees
5. to the remaining batter add:
3 eggs
1/2 C. milk
2 t. Cinnamon
1/2 t. salt
3 C. flour
1 C. oil
1 C. sugar
1/2 t. vanilla
1 1/2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. baking soda
1 lg box of instant vanilla pudding

6. Grease 2 large loaf pans and mix an additional 1/4 C. sugar and 1 1/2 t. cinnamon and dust the loaf pans with 1/2 the mixture.
7. pour batter evenly into the 2 pans and sprinkle the remaining cinnamon-sugar on top.
8. Bake 1 hr., cool until bread loosens from the sides of the pans (about 10 minutes) and turn out.
Serve warm or cold.


Here is a recipe I found for the starter..
Original Recipe Yield 4 cups of starter

Ingredients

  • 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
  • 1/4 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour, divided
  • 3 cups white sugar, divided
  • 3 cups milk

Directions

  1. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Let stand 10 minutes. In a 2 quart container glass, plastic or ceramic container, combine 1 cup flour and 1 cup sugar. Mix thoroughly or flour will lump when milk is added. Slowly stir in 1 cup milk and dissolved yeast mixture. Cover loosely and let stand until bubbly. Consider this day 1 of the 10 day cycle. Leave loosely covered at room temperature.

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