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Amish Friendship Bread Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Askksk / All my dishes 2 years, 6 months ago Prep:10m Cook:60m Servings:12	Askksk
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Ingredients

Starter:

1 package active dry yeast

1 cup milk

1 cup flour

1 cup sugar

Ingredients for completed bread:

1 cup oil

1 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

3 large eggs

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 cup milk

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 large box Instant Vanilla Pudding

1 small box Instant Vanilla Pudding AND

1 small box Instant Lemon Pudding

2 tsp cinnamon

Directions

Starter Instructions:

Note: DO NOT use metal bowls or spoons and DO NOT refrigerate.

Dissolve yeast in small amount of warm water. Mix all ingredients together in an ample sized bowl or jar (it WILL grow). This is Day 1 of the starter.

Instructions for completed bread:

General:

Do NOT use metal spoon or bowl for mixing.

Do NOT refrigerate.

If air gets in the bag, let it out.

It is normal for batter to thicken, bubble and ferment.

Day 1: This is the day you receive the batter; do nothing.

Day 2: Squeeze the bag.

Day 3: Squeeze the bag.

Day 4: Squeeze the bag.

Day 5: Squeeze the bag.

Day 6: Add 1 cup all purpose flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk

Day 7: Squeeze the bag.

Day 8: Squeeze the bag.

Day 9: Squeeze the bag.

Day 10: Combine in a large bowl: batter, 1 cup all purpose flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk. Mix with wooden spoon or spatula. Pour three, one cup starters in ziplock bags and give them to your friends along with the instructions.

Add to the batter remaining in the bowl, add all ingredients.

Pour into 2 large, well greased and sugared (mix cinnamon and sugar) loaf pans. You can sprinkle some extra cinnamon and sugar on top. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour.

Optional: Add 1 cup chopped pecans and/or 1/2 cup raisins.

Variations:

*Omit cinnamon and vanilla pudding in the basic recipe and add two bananas (mashed)

*Omit cinnamon and vanilla pudding from the basic recipe and add 1 - (2.1 oz) box of instant chocolate pudding, 3 tsp. cocoa and 3/4 cup chocolate chips. Bake for 1-1/2 to 1-3/4 hours.

*Add one cup of raisins and one small diced apple.

*Omit the vanilla pudding. Add 1 box of butterscotch pudding and 1 cup of butterscotch chips.

*Replace the vanilla pudding with chocolate and add 1/2 cup each of chocolate chips and coconut.

*Substitute ALMOND flavoring (NOT Imitation) for the vanilla flavoring and substitute WHITE CHOCOLATE pudding for the vanilla pudding.

*Use lemon pudding and lemon extract in place of vanilla pudding and vanilla extract. Also add 1/4 cup of poppy seeds. and omit cinnamon and nuts.

*Omit cinnamon, nuts and vanilla. Use lemon flavored pudding, add 1 tsp. lemon extract and 2 cups coconut.

*Use banana cream pie pudding and two mashed bananas. I have also added 1/4 cup of chocolate chip to this on occasion.

*A cup of dried cranberries and a tsp of orange zest, along with a cup of chopped nuts, makes a nice holiday variation to the cake!

*Add Craisins(dried sweetened cranberries) and chocolate covered raisins to the mix.

*Add dried apples and caramel instant pudding (makes it like caramel apples).

*Use 3/4 cup white chocolate chips, 3/4 cup macadamia nuts and cheesecake pudding.

*Substitute 2 tablespoons molasses for equal amount of sugar and add spices to make gingerbread.

*Add 1 cup of drained crushed pineapple, 1 cup shredded coconut and pistachio pudding (instead of vanilla).

*Use 1 small box of orange jello, 1 c. drained mandarin oranges.

*Use 1 small box of strawberry jello, 1 c. thawed strawberries.

*Use Cheesecake pudding instead of vanilla pudding and add chopped maraschino cherries (about 6 with some juice). This tastes great and looks very festive.

*Use different flavors of pudding: bannana, lemon, chocolate, and butter pecan. You can also made it with fruit such as blueberries and raspberries.

*Add glazed fruit mix with walnuts and almonds. The result is a tasty fruitcake.

*Use banana cream pudding and shredded coconut.

*Use coconut cream pie pudding with crushed pineapple.

*Use cappicino pudding , 1/2 C. chocolate chips and 1/2 C. nuts of choice.

BASICALLY- You can put anything into the basic Amish Friendship Bread recipe.

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Comments

thepiggs 2 years, 6 months ago said:
Great variety of changes for different breads!

queenmidge 2 years, 2 months ago said:
Ingredients
Starter:
1 package active dry yeast
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar

that is the recipe for the starter .

this is such a YUMMY bread ....fun for the kids to make too - mine love all the stirring .

notyourmomma 2 years, 1 month ago said:
Oh, just like this was in Ann Hodgman's One Bite Won't Kill You. What an awesome cookbook, Ann is a terrific writer and so very funny, I recommend it very highly. I love this bread and make many variations and freeze them as Christmas gift goodies and I always have something on hand for emergency defrost for unexpected guests.

bunnypony 2 years ago said:
I knew I'd be able to find a Starter recipe-- I just received a bag and it EXPLICITLY states that "Only the Amish know how to creae a Starter, so if you give away all your bags, you'll jave to wait until someone gives you another..."

hah! I imagined that it would be more complicated to Start it!! So much for being SOL, huh?

THANKS! xoxo

bunnypony 2 years ago said:
...also, my recipe also says to use the "2 large pans"...

I made 1- 8x8 and 1 loaf pan... worked beautifully in both.

peace!

kimberlydawn 1 year, 10 months ago said:
I have been looking for a starter recipe for about 12 years and no one knew what I was talking about. Thank you so much!!! I also had several recipes for different breads to make including pumpkin, banana choco-chip, and several others. Do you know where to find those??

askksk 1 year, 10 months ago said:
I've edited the recipe to include all variations that I've heard about. Can't say I've tried them all because I love the original.

moxie2burn 1 year, 4 months ago said:
I love the original best too. Hope you don't mind, I uploaded a pic for you. This stuff has become a staple in our house ... and there are always bags of frozen starter in my freezer. :) Thanks for posting!

askksk 1 year, 4 months ago said:
Starter recipe is the first five lines of the ingredients section and the first three lines of the instructions section.

juels 11 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Thank you so much for this recipe! I especially appreciate you adding all the variations to it! You can get bored eating the same bread every 10 days. Printed this out, and 5 for you!

cherylannxo 10 months, 2 weeks ago said:
Great recipe! ^5...Cheryl

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