Today I made Amish Friendship Bread. I actually had to make this from scratch since I have not received a starter for this since before the Monkey was born. I changed some of the ingredients. Here is the recipe:
Amish Friendship Bread Starter:1 tablespoon Active Dry Yeast
2 cups Warm Water — (110 degrees)
1 cup Flour
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Milk
Bread:1 cup Vegetable Oil
1 cup Sugar
2 cups Flour
3 Eggs
1 small Vanilla Pudding Mix — Instant
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 cup Milk
Cinnamon Sugar:1 cup Sugar
2 tablespoons Cinnamon
For
Amish Friendship Bread Starter:Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup of the warm water in a deep glass container. Stir
in remaining warm water, milk, flour and sugar. Beat until smooth. Cover. A large
glass jar or bowl with a tight fitting lid works best for this.
Because your
first batch of starter contains fresh yeast, you can skip the next set of
directions and go directly to the instructions for splitting your start.Do not refrigerate! Do not stir with a metal spoon! The starter requires 10
days for fermentation.
Day 1- Begin or receive starter
Day 2- Stir with wooden spoon
Day 3- Stir with wooden spoon
Day 4- Stir with wooden spoon
Day 5- Add 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 cup milk
Day 6- Stir with wooden spoon
Day 7- Stir with wooden spoon
Day 8- Do Nothing
Day 9- Do Nothing
Day 10- Add 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 cup milk
Put 1 cup of starter in each of three containers. Give 2 away to friends and
keep one. This will begin their Day 1.
For Amish Friendship BreadYou will have about 1 cup of batter left besides the 1 cup you have saved for
yourself. To the remaining batter add vegetable oil, sugar, flour, baking
powder, baking soda, eggs, milk, vanilla pudding mix, cinnamon, and salt. Beat
until well blended. Add one cup raisins, chocolate chips or nuts, if desired.
Grease 2 loaf pans well, and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, coating bottom well.
Turn batter into pans, and sprinkle remaining cinnamon sugar onto tops of
loaves. Bake at 325 F degrees for one hour.
My changes are:
Instead of 1 cup veg. oil, I used 1/2C olive oil and 1/2C plain applesauce.
Instead of vanilla pudding I used butterscotch. I have used chocolate and pistachio in the past with this bread and it is just as good.
This time I did use the cinnamon sugar on the top and sprinkled in the pan.. I was not too fond of this option. I did not like the big pieces that it made on the top of my bread.. While very tasty, they came off as soon as I flipped the bread out of the pan. That is what is underneath the bread, on the wax paper, in the pictures.
I also let my starter sit in a gallon sized ziploc bag. That way when I add the ingredients I just zip it closed and then mix it by squeezing the bag.
If any one does make this let me know what changes you have made...
Hope you enjoy.....
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