Amish Friendship Bread Recipe

AMISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD STARTER
• 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
• 1/4 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup milk

In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Let stand 10 minutes. In a 2 quart container, combine flour and sugar, mix thoroughly. Slowly stir in milk and dissolved yeast mixture. Cover loosely and let stand until bubbly. Consider this day 1 of the 10 day cycle.

AMISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD RECIPE

Day 1: This is the date on the bag. Do nothing to the batter
Day 2: Mush the bag
Day 3: Mush the bag
Day 4: Mush the bag
Day 5: Mush the bag

Day 6: Add one cup each of – milk, sugar and flour. Then mush the bag

Day 7: Mush the bag
Day 8: Mush the bag
Day 9: Mush the bag

Day 10: Follow the instructions below.

1. Pour the entire contents of the bag into a non-metal bowl and add
1 ½ cups flour, 1 ½ cups sugar, 1 ½ cups milk.
Stir until smooth with a wooden spoon.

Measure out 4 separate batters of 1 cup each into four 1-gallon size Ziploc bags.
Write the current date on the bag. Keep a starter for yourself and give the other three to
friends, along with this recipe.

NOTE: If you keep a starter, you will be baking every 10 days. The bread is very good and makes a great gift. Only the Amish know how to create the starter. So if you give them all away, you will have to wait until someone gives you the starter back.

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Baking instructions: Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

TO THE REMAINING BATTER IN THE BOWL – add

3 eggs
1 cup oil
½ cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1 ½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
2 cups flour
1 lg. box Vanilla Instant Pudding Mix
(options: 2 cups raisins or nuts)

Grease and flour two large loaf pans. Fill with equal amounts of batter.
Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar (½ cup sugar and ½ tsp cinnamon)

Bake for 45 min – 1 hour. Cool until bread loosens from pan evenly, about 10 min.
Turn onto serving plate. Serve warm or at room temperature.