How to Make Amish Breads
- 1). Receive the Amish friendship bread starter from a friend. Before you have finished making your bread, you will have starter to give away to other friends. You can, however, make your own starter (see Resources).
- 2). Stir the starter once on the second, third and fourth days after receiving it. Add 1 cup each milk, flour and white sugar, and stir, on the fifth day. Stir the starter once on days six, seven, eight and nine. On day 10, add 1 cup each milk, flour and white sugar. Divide the mixture into four (nonmetal) containers of 1 cup each. Give three of the containers, with instructions and the recipe, to three friends and keep one container for your own bread.
- 3). Mix together 2 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 1¼ tsp. baking powder, ½ tsp. baking soda, 1 tsp. cinnamon and ½ tsp. salt.
- 4). Combine the bread starter, 2/3 cup oil, three beaten eggs and 1 tsp. vanilla in a separate nonmetal bowl. Mix with a plastic spoon, as metal reacts adversely with the starter.
- 5). Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix, until the mixture is well blended.
- 6). Rub oil on the inside of two loaf pans and sprinkle them with sugar. Divide the bread batter between the loaf pans.
- 7). Bake the Amish friendship bread in a preheated 325 degree F oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Check the doneness by poking a toothpick in the center of the bread. If it comes out clean, the bread is done.
- 8). Remove the bread from the loaf pans and cool.
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