Amish Friendship Bread
Ingredients
Bread ingredients:
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup oil
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 5 oz box vanilla instant pudding
Instructions
- Day 1 Do nothing. This is the date on the bag your received.
- Day 2 Mush the bag.
- Day 3 Mush the bag.
- Day 4 Mush the bag.
- Day 5 Mush the bag.
- Day 6 Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk. Mush the bag.
- Day 7 Mush the bag.
- Day 8 Mush the bag.
- Day 9 Mush the bag.
- Day 10 Mix and divide the starter and bake your two loaves.
Dividing the Starter
- Pour entire contents of the starter bag into a non-metal bowl. Add 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 1/2 cups sugar, and 1 1/2 cups of milk. Mix well. Measure out 4 separate starter bags by pouring 1 cup batter into 4 separate 1 gallon ziplocl baggies. Mark each bag with that days date. Keep one for yourself and give three to friends.
Baking your bread:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees and add the following to the remaining batter.
- Grease 2 large loaf pans and dust the greased pans with additional mixed sugar and cinnamon. Divide batter between the two pans.
- Bake for 1 hour. Cool until bread loosens from the pans and remove the loaves.
- Serve warm or cold.
- If you keep a starter for yourself, you wlil bake every 10 days. Bread freezes very well.