Amish Friendship Bread
Posted in Whatever Wednesday on 07/21/2010 03:39 pm by lori
After trying some of my friend’s Cinnamon Bread that was so yummy, I asked for the recipe. She told me there was a starter and she’d bring it over with the instructions. Anyway, the basic recipe involves eggs, oil, milk, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla pudding, etc. It’s called friendship bread because you’re supposed to give away the starter to 3 friends and continue baking a starter that you keep every 10 days.
Thinking that the bread might get a little time consuming, expensive, or boring, I went looking for variations. Here are some good ones . . .
Ways to Save Money
- Instead of 3 eggs, you can use 2.
- You can substitute applesauce for the vegetable oil.
- You can substitute water for the milk.
- And you don’t have to include the pudding.
The cinnamon bread is awesome! Love it, but I found these other ways to make the bread . . .
Other Flavors, instead of cinnamon and/or vanilla pudding
- add 1-2 cups of blueberries
- add box of instant chocolate pudding, 3 tsp. cocoa and 3/4 cup chocolate chips.
- 1 box of butterscotch pudding and 1 cup of butterscotch chips.
- lemon pudding and add 1/4 cup of poppy seeds.
- 3/4 cup white chocolate chips, 3/4 cup macadamia nuts and used cheesecake pudding
- 1 small box of strawberry jello, 1 c. thawed strawberries
- see more here
- you could also bake in a 9×13 pan for 35 minutes.
When You’re Tired of Baking
- You can freeze the starter for up to a year. Thaw it for 3 hours at room temperature when you’re ready to start baking again.
- It can be 1-2 days off schedule, early or late.
- If you wanna say goodbye to the starter but don’t want to throw it out, you could bake all the starter by dividing it equally into 4 bowls. Then, add the ingredients. Each bowl would make 1-2 loaves each. Then, you could give away some of the baked bread.
Soooo, who wants some of my starter?
Then add 3 - 4 Tablespoons of Tang (or you could save this step until the end**)
