Recipe: Yummy Amish Friendship Bread & Starter

Amish Friendship Bread & Starter. A sweet cinnamon bread that requires a batch of Amish Friendship Bread Starter. For variations, add your favorite fruits and/or nuts! Here it is, the one and only original Amish Friendship Bread.

Amish Friendship Bread operates on a similar principle as a chain letter — pass it on — but with no threats or negative repercussions if you choose not to make it. At the end of the ten days, you divide it into four portions, bake with one, and give the other three away. This usually hums along nicely for the first cycle or two, but. You can have Amish Friendship Bread & Starter using 22 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Amish Friendship Bread & Starter

1. Prepare of starter:.
2. It's 1 of package(2 1/4 TSP) Active Dry Yeast.
3. You need 1/4 cup of warm water (110°F).
4. It's 1 cup of granulated sugar.
5. You need 1 cup of all-purpose flour.
6. Prepare 1 cup of milk (non-fat is okay).
7. You need of feedings(2):.
8. It's 2 cups of granulated sugar, divided.
9. You need 2 cups of all-purpose flour, divided.
10. It's 2 cup of milk, divided (non-fat is okay).
11. Prepare of for the bread:.
12. It's 1 of & 1/4 TSP baking powder.
13. You need 1 TSP of baking soda.
14. You need 1/2 TSP of salt.
15. Prepare 2 TSP of cinnamon, divided.
16. Prepare 2 cups of all-purpose flour.
17. You need 1 cup of Starter.
18. You need 2/3 cup of oil.
19. It's 1 cup of & 4 TSP sugar(4 tsp is for cinnamon topping).
20. It's 3 of eggs.
21. You need 1 TSP of vanilla extract.
22. You need of Optional: 1 cup of chocolate chips(or any other chip) or chopped nuts.

Amish friendship bread is a food surrounded by stories. Amish lore has it that an Amish mother will hand down a piece of her starter on her daughter's wedding day. That way, the family bread will be passed down from generation to generation. When fed with flour and water every few days, the starter just grows stronger.

Amish Friendship Bread & Starter step by step

1. DAY 1: 1. Make the starter: Stir yeast into warm water. Allow mix to sit for 10 minutes to fully "bloom" 2. Whisk sugar & flour in a 2 qt container. Whisk in milk, and be sure to stir the corners well, so the flour doesn't clump and get stuck to the bottom. 3. Stir yeast mixture into the flour mixture. Cover container & store on your counter..
2. Days 2-4 : stir the mixture once per day.
3. Day 5: 1. Feed the mixture: Stir in 1 cup of each:; sugar, flour & milk into the starter. (To make this part easier, I just separated my sugar & flour in sandwich bags for both feedings & measured my milk as needed) Cover loosely & store back on the counter..
4. Days 6-9: stir the mixture once per day.
5. Day 10: LAST FEEDING DAY 1. Feed the mixture: Stir 1 cup of each (sugar, flour & milk into starter). Cover loosely & store on the counter. 2. Remove 1 cup of the starter for yourself for the Amish friendship bread recipe. Then remove the remaining 3 cups to give to 3 friends with the recipe attached (or you can freeze the remaining starter in a sealed Ziploc bags for future use).
6. FRIENDSHIP BREAD RECIPE: I took a screenshot of the recipe instructions, it wouldn't let me save the typed information..
7. I garnished my Bread with a quick chocolate ganache, as well as adding butterscotch & chocolate chips to my batter. Soo yummy!!! 😋.
8. Also, a quick tip, so you don't lose track of your days : get an index card, tape it to your container & write the date you 1st prepared the starter & then list all the days after that: for example, I began my Starter on April 22nd, so this is how I did it: Day 1: 4/22/16 Days 2-4: 4/23-4/25 Stir Mixture once per day Day 5: 4/26 (Feed mixture one cup of each Flour, Sugar & Milk) And so on... That's how I was able to keep up with my dates, I know it's easy to lose track of the days, so I hope this helps...

To make the traditional Amish Friendship Bread, you need to get a "bread starter" from one of your friends (or make it yourself). The starter is made with a mixture of flour, sugar and milk placed into a resealable bag. You knead the bag once a day for a few days And then you have to "feed" it a few days after that. Amish Friendship Bread is a great bread for those special occasions. When you've made your bread, you can give your friends a sample and the starter that came from the original batter that helped to make the sample bread!

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