My neighbor gave me a delicious slice of cinnamon bread and then brought me an icky looking bag or glop. She explained the instructions to me as I gawked in disgust. I tended to the bag as required and made my bread today- it was PERFECT!
Amish Friendship Bread
Note the following :
- Do not use any type of metal spoon of bowl
- Do not refrigerate
- If air gets in the bag, let it out
- It is normal for the batter to rise and ferment
- You will need 2 small boxes of vanilla instant pudding on Day 10
Day One : Do nothing (this is the day you will receive the batter). The bag is dated, if you did not receive it on this day, you will know when the first day was by the date on the bag.
Day Two : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Three : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Four : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Five : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Six : Add to the bag, 1 cup of Flour, 1 cup of Sugar, 1 cup of Milk. Mash the bag.
Day Seven : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Eight : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Nine : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Ten : Follow Directions below :
1) Pour the entire contents of the bag into a NON-METAL bowl
2) Add 1 ½ cups of Flour, 1 ½ cups of Sugar, 1 ½ cups of Milk.
3) Measure out 4 separate starters ( 1 cup each) into 4 one gallon Ziploc bags
Keep a starter and give to three friends along with a copy of the recipe.
Note : if you keep a starter, you will be baking every 10 days.
Baking Instructions:
Preheat oven @ 375 degrees
Add to batter in a bowl :
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup of oil (1/2 cup oil and /2 cup applesauce can be substituted)
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp vanilla
- 1 ½ tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Baking Salt
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 cups All Purpose Powder
- 2 small boxes Instant Vanilla Pudding
- (Optional) 1 cup raisins or chopped nuts
Grease 2 large loaf pans or 4 small. Mix in a separate bowl ½ c sugar and 1 ½ tsp of cinnamon. Use ½ of mixture to dust greased pans. Pour batter into pans. Do not fill past ¾ of pan. Batter will rise while baking. Sprinkle top of remaining sugar and cinnamon mixture and bake for an hour. Cool until bread loosens from the sides.
Note the following :
- Do not use any type of metal spoon of bowl
- Do not refrigerate
- If air gets in the bag, let it out
- It is normal for the batter to rise and ferment
- You will need 2 small boxes of vanilla instant pudding on Day 10
Day One : Do nothing (this is the day you will receive the batter). The bag is dated, if you did not receive it on this day, you will know when the first day was by the date on the bag.
Day Two : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Three : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Four : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Five : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Six : Add to the bag, 1 cup of Flour, 1 cup of Sugar, 1 cup of Milk. Mash the bag.
Day Seven : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Eight : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Nine : Mash the bag, let the air out and reseal.
Day Ten : Follow Directions below :
1) Pour the entire contents of the bag into a NON-METAL bowl
2) Add 1 ½ cups of Flour, 1 ½ cups of Sugar, 1 ½ cups of Milk.
3) Measure out 4 separate starters ( 1 cup each) into 4 one gallon Ziploc bags
Keep a starter and give to three friends along with a copy of the recipe.
Note : if you keep a starter, you will be baking every 10 days.
Baking Instructions:
Preheat oven @ 375 degrees
Add to batter in a bowl :
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup of oil (1/2 cup oil and /2 cup applesauce can be substituted)
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp vanilla
- 1 ½ tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Baking Salt
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 cups All Purpose Powder
- 2 small boxes Instant Vanilla Pudding
- (Optional) 1 cup raisins or chopped nuts
Grease 2 large loaf pans or 4 small. Mix in a separate bowl ½ c sugar and 1 ½ tsp of cinnamon. Use ½ of mixture to dust greased pans. Pour batter into pans. Do not fill past ¾ of pan. Batter will rise while baking. Sprinkle top of remaining sugar and cinnamon mixture and bake for an hour. Cool until bread loosens from the sides.
oh wow, I LOVE this friendship bread. Here in Holland (where there are no amish, since they all moved out to the USA) we call this glop 'Herman'. Don't ask me why.... maybe it's easier to feed something that has a name? *lol*
ReplyDeleteI used to get this all the time when I was a kid, but somehow it got extinct or something? I'm looking on making a starter for this myself.. wish me luck, hehe..
greetings from the netherlands!
wow...haven't seen this in years! My mom and her friend used to make it all the time. Looks delish!
ReplyDeleteYum!
ReplyDeleteAmish Friendship Bread must have started back up everywhere recently. My bag of glop is sitting on the counter at home. LOL! I hadn't even though about it in years until a friend gave me some starter a week or so ago. LOVE this stuff!!!
ReplyDeleteWe had something similar in Texas when I was little called friendship cake and the starter was the liquid from fermented peaches and sugar I think. I think it was just a way for we Baptist to get a little tipsy without going to the liquor store. :-)
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