Recipe for AMISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD
(Print this portion out, and pass it on with your starter bags
as you hand them out to friends.)
Important: Do NOT use metal spoons or metal bowls.
Do NOT refrigerate the starter bags.
DAY 1: This is the day you receive your starter bag. The bag will have about 1 cup of the starter mixture inside. You don't have to do anything!
DAY 2: Mush the bag for 1 minute and set aside. Don't refrigerate.
DAYS 3, 4, 5: Exactly as Day 2.
DAY 6: Add to the bag, 1 cup each all-purpose flour, sugar and milk. Mush inside the bag until smooth. Set aside; don't refrigerate.
DAY 7: Let the air out of the bag; reseal it and mush, mush, mush.
DAYS 8 & 9: Exactly as Day 7.
DAY 10: Now, you're ready to make starter bags to pass on, plus bake your own AMISH FRIENDSHIP LOAVES!
Follow these instructions: Preheat your oven to 325.
Empty your bag into a glazed ceramic or glass mixing bowl. Stir well with a wooden spoon. Pour 1 cup of the starter into each of 4 large ziplock bags. These are the starter bags you'll give to friends along with this recipe.
To your bowl, add these: 1 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup milk
3 eggs, beaten slightly
1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat these ingredients together with a wooden spoon.
In a separate bowl, add: 2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 large box french vanilla instant pudding
Blend these dry ingredients together lightly with a fork.
Now, all all the dry ingredients to the first bowl and mix together thoroughly.
Pour your AMISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD batter into two (2) well-greased loaf pans which you've coated with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon (to taste).
Sprinkle any leftover cinnamon sugar mixture on the top of the batter, and bake the loaves in a 325 degree oven for 65 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool in the pans for no more than 10 minutes before turning out onto a rack to cool more thoroughly.
But I know you won't be able to wait -- you've already waited 10 days! So, using a serrated-edge bread knife, cut carefully into the warm bread and enjoy!
