Amish Friendship Bread - AMAZING bread!!! It starts with a starter. You can get 10 loaves with one batch! Great for gift giving!!!! The starter freezes well. Yeast, water, flour sugar, milk, eggs, oil, cinnamon, vanilla, vanilla pudding, baking powder and baking soda. We LOVE this bread! #bread #dessert #amishfriendshipbread
In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in warm water for 10 minutes. Stir well. In a large glass bowl, combine flour and sugar. Mix thoroughly. Stir in the milk and yeast mixture. Pour starter into a ziplock bag. Date ziplock bag so you know what day is "Day 1".
Day 1: Do nothing. This is the date you made/received the bag. Squish the starter in the bag.
Day 2: Squish the bag - remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 3: Squish the bag - remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 4: Squish the bag - remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 5: Squish the bag - remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 6: Add to the bag 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup milk. Squish the bag
Day 7: Squish the bag - remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 8: Squish the bag - remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 9: Squish the bag - remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 10: Baking Day!
Making the bread:
Pour the entire contents of the ziploc bag into a large glass bowl and add: 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup milk. Mix well.
Reserve one cup of the starter to make bread. Divide the remaining 4 cups of the starter mixture between 4 ziploc bags. Make sure to date the bags. Keep one bag for yourself and give 3 bags away with the instructions.
Preheat the oven to 325ºF.
In a small bowl combine 1/2 cup sugar and 1½ tsp cinnamon. Spray two 9-inch bread pans with nonstick cooking spray. Dust the pans with half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Set aside.
In a large glass bowl (the one you made the starter in), add one cup of reserved starter and ingredients for bread. Mix well. Pour batter into prepared pans. Top with remaining cinnamon sugar.
Bake for 1 hour.
Notes:
Each batch of bread uses 1 cup of starter. If you want to make all 10 loaves of bread instead of keeping the starter going, use one cup of starter per recipe. One recipe makes 2 loaves of bread.You can freeze the starter instead of giving the bags away. Just thaw and start by adding the ingredients for the bread.To keep a portion of the starter going for more bread, start over at "Day 1" after baking the bread.