Amish Friendship Bread

1 cup live yeast start (see below if you need to create starter)

Day 1… do nothing with the started

Days 2-5… Stir

Day 6… Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk. Stir

Days 7-9… Stir

Day 10… Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk. Stir and then

take out 3 cups and place 1 cup

each into three separate plastic containers or plastic Ziploc bags. Give one cup and a

copy of this recipe to three friends. To the balance (a little over one cup)

of the batter add the following ingredients and mix well.

1 cup oil

½ cup milk

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

In a separate bowl combine the following dry ingredients and mix well:

2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

1 ½ teaspoon baking powder

2 teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon baking soda

1 (5.1 oz) box instant vanilla pudding

½ teaspoon salt

Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients. Mix and pour into two well greased and sugared bread pans.

Bake at 350◦ for 1 hour. Ovens may vary.

Amish Friendship Bread Starter

1 package active dry yeast

¼ cup warm water

3 cups all purpose flour, divided

3 cups white sugar, divided

3 cups milk

1. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Let stand 10 minutes. In a 2 quart container glass, plastic, or ceramic container, combine 1 cup flour and 1 cup sugar. Mix thoroughly or flour will lump when milk is added. Slowly stir in 1 cup milk and dissolved yeast mixture. Cover loosely and let stand until bubbly. Consider this day 1 of the 10 day cycle. Leave loosely covered at room temperature.

2. On day 2 through 4, stir started with a spoon. Day 5, stir in 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Days 6 though 9, stir only.

3. Day 10, stir in 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Remove 1 cup to make your first bread, give 2 cups to friends along with this recipe, and your favorite Amish Bread Recipe. Store the remaining 1 cup starter in a container in the refrigerator, or begin the 10 day process over again (beginning with step 2.)

Linda’s Note

Once you have made the starter, you will consider it Day One, and thus ignore step 1 in this recipe and proceed with step 2. You can also freeze this starter in 1 cup measures for later use. Frozen starter will take at least 3 hours at room temperature to thaw before using.