Amish Friendship Bread

Ingredients:
• Amish Friendship Bread *
• 1.00 c Oil
• 1.00 c Sugar
• 1.00 ts Vanilla
• 3.00 Eggs
• 0.50 ts Salt
• 2.00 ts Cinnamon
• 2.00 c Flour
• 0.50 c Milk
• 0.50 ts Baking soda
• 1.00 Large box vanilla instant
• Pudding 1.50 ts Baking powder
• Cinnamon sugar

Directions:
Add ingredients to starter except cinnamon sugar. Grease 2 loaf pans and coat with cinnamon sugar. Pour batter into pans and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Bake at 325 for 1 hour.

Starter info: Starter in large zip lock bag: One cup of starter. Day 2 through 5 squeeze bag 2-3 times per day (gently knead). Day 6 add 1 cup each milk, flour and sugar. Day 7,8,9 squeeze bag 2-3 times per day. Day 10 combine in large bowl: the batter, 1 cup each flour, sugar and milk. Mix with wooden spoon. Makes 3 1-cup starters plus 2 loaves of bread. Put each starter in large zip lock bag. If you don’t want any starter bags for future use or to give away, omit adding ingredients on day 10 and just add ingredients for bread.

*Amish Friendship Bread:

Ingredients:
• 1 each yeast, active, dry, package
• 2 1/2 cup water, warm
• 2 cup flour, sifted
• 1 tablespoon sugar

Directions:
Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup of the warm water in a deep glass or plastic container. Stir in remaining warm water, flour and sugar. Beat until smooth. Cover with loose fitting cover. Do not refrigerate! The starter requires 10 days for fermentation as follows: DAYS 1, 2, 3 and 4: Stir batter DAY 5: Add 1 cup each milk, flour, sugar and stir DAYS 6, 7, and 8: Stir batter each day DAY 10: Add 1 cup each flour, sugar, milk and stir. The batter is ready to use. This makes 3 cups batter to use in the recipes. If you want to you may pour 1 cup batter each into 3 containers and give 1 or 2 away. Save 1 cup to begin process all over again OR you can use all 3 cups batter for the recipes at 1 time and when you want to bake these again just start the starter again.