Friendship Bread

[alabama49]

Thanks for your answers-but I am still concerned about my starter. I looked at some web sites that showed pictures of starters and they all have large bubble and look kinda thick-mine doesn't look like that at all. Just has some tiny bubble around the edge of the glass container. Do you all think I should just start again? I would hate to give it out to my friends and it not be right!!!!

 

[3goodeggs]

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I wouldn't mind doing that, it would encourage me to bake more. It sure would be neater than the messy bags. and I don't have to be friendly, I could just make more for us.

Florida...I don't know. Would it spoil here? you are so nice and Nebraska-ie.
I will give that a try. Not that much to lose.
thanks.

 

[cybercat]

There is a true recipe on friendship bread that does not include pudding or prepackage products. Someone started saying it was amish and it is not JFYI. Friendship bread you can start your own with out a starter as it is really a sweet sourdough. Here is how you do it.

Frienship bread starter mix.

1 tsp of active dry yeast ( 1 package)
1/4 cup water warm(110 F)
1 cup AP flour
1 cup white sugar
1 cup warm milk ( 110 F)

Again do not use any metal when making this.

1. In a small bowl dissolve yeast in warm water for 10 mins . stir well.

2. In a glass 2 qt. or plastic container ( plastic bag that seals work well ) 1 cup of shifted flour and 1 cup of sugar. Mix throughly or flour will get lump when you add milk.

3. Slowly stir in warm milk and dissolve yeast mixture. Loosly cover the mixture with lid or seal the plastic bag. The mixture will get bubbly. Consider this day 1 of the cycle or the day you recived the starter.

4. follow the regular ten day program.

To make bread.

1 cup of starter
2/3 cup oil
3 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp cinnomen
2 cups flour
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup sugar

In one bowl combine and mix all dry ingredients do the same in another bowl for wet ingredinets.

add 1 cup rasining and 1 cup nuts mix dry into wet and mix well.

grease 2 loaf pans with butter and sprinkel with sugar. Pour in mix into pans and sprinkel cinnomen and sugar ontop of loafs before baking.
bake at 325 for 1 hour.

When I went to find this recipe I had to look long and hard to find the one without a pudding package or condece milk in it. I think it is easier to find now than when I was looking for it. This was one of the orignal recipes that got changed to make it shorter by adding the pudding. Never could figure out why but some say it keep it moister.

 

[3goodeggs]

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Could you be too cold? yeast likes it warm to reproduce and eat and make gas.
(that was a strange visual)
Did you remember to add the sugar?

 

[horsejody]

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Add some yeast and put it in a warm spot. If you stir it, don't use a metal spoon. Also, never store it in a metal bowl.

 

[cindy leigh]

this is essentially a sourdough starter.
I used to follow the "bag on the counter" directions precisely. Then I got tired of it. I just keep it in the refrig in a container, and take out and refresh whenever I want to bake a cake. Actually, if you have a regular sourdough starter, you can use that for the cake. You don't have to maintain 2 different starters.

I made a lot of different flavors.
Applesauce cake: replace half of milk and oil with an equal amount of applesauce. add walnuts, raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a handful of diced apples. Use butterscotch or vanilla pudding mix.
Pumpkin: same as above, but use canned pumpkin vs applesauce.
Lemon poppy seed: lemon pudding, 2 Tbsp poppy seeds, no cinnamon. Lemon extract.
Blueberry white chocolate: add blueberries, white choc chips, and white choc instant pudding.
Banana: replace half of milk and oil with mashed banana or banana babyfood. Add walnuts and choc chips. Use banana pudding.

You can see, the possibilities are endless.
My family calls this "Sunday Cake" because I bake it on Sunday after church. It usually does not make it to Monday, though.

 

[jenjscott]

Ok, today is the day. I'm going to follow the basic recipe the first time around. But my oven is out and I will have to try it in the toaster oven. It did pretty good on biscuits, so maybe it won't be too bad. I've got a brand new oven, but my DH broke the ignitor converting it to butane, so we're waiting on a new one.

 

[ArabiansR2Cool]

Good luck & be sure to let us know how it turns out!

 

[Kim_NC]

My first 10 days are up tomorrow. We'll see how my first cooked batches turn out. I'll be using three starters to bake, and using one to make another starter/process.

 

[ArabiansR2Cool]

I have some starters available and ready to go out in the mail tomorrow. If anyone would like one, please just drop me a PM. Thanks!