Amish Friendship Bread Recipe

Still waiting for day ten to actually make my friendship bread, but I thought I would go ahead and post the recipes that I have for the bread. :)

Amish Friendship Bread Recipe

Pre-heat oven to 325, then mix the following well:

1 cup of starter
2/3 cup of oil or applesauce
3 eggs
1 tsp of vanilla

In Separate bowl combine:

2 cups of unbleached (organic) flour
1 cup of sugar
1/2 tsp of salt
1&1/4 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp of cinnamon

Combine the wet & dry ingredients thoroughly. (I cheat a bit, and do this all in my kitchen aide, doing the wet first and then adding to that the dry.) Grease 2 bread loaf pans. (I use spray oil) Pour mix into pans, then mix some cinnamon and sugar and top your bread with that. Bake on 325 for 1 hour or until toothpick is clean when inserted. (Because all ovens vary in temperature, I like to start checking after about 40 min.) You can bake in a 9x13 pan, and it takes about half the time this way. (30 minutes or so)


Chocolate Amish Friendship Bread Recipe

2 cups of flour
1 cup of sugar
1.5 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 (5.9 oz) box of instant chocolate pudding
1 cup of starter
1 cup vegetable oil or applesauce
1/2 cup of milk
3 eggs
1 tsp of vanilla

Follow the same baking instructions on your bread. You can bake in a 9x13 baking dish, and it is done sooner. (if you do this, it takes about 30min, in my oven at least.)
As far as the rest of your starter, here is how to maintain it...

You can freeze it in 1 cup portions to use later,(just make sure to thaw it to room temp. before you use it.) or you can keep it up by doing the following

Stir each day (with a non-metal spoon), or put in a zip lock bag and squish and release the air. Once every 8-10 days, feed your starter 1 cup flour, sugar and milk. Every time you do this step, remove about 1/3 of starter and either freeze or bake into bread. You may also remove your frozen starter and thaw to room temp. and start the feeding process as though just one day was completed.) So you would then have ten days to a new batch of starter.