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Use this Amish Friendship Bread Starter Recipe as a base for many sweet breads, dinner rolls, muffins and other baked goods. Hints for storing and using up the sourdough starter.
It’s one of those recipes that people seem to either love or hate. On one hand, you make a sweet sourdough that you have to keep dividing and using up, or passing out to your friends….or throw away. If you keep the starter going, it just…well…
Lemon Poppy Seed Amish Friendship Bread Recipe
On the other hand, you make a sweet sourdough that is versatile and makes an amazing cinnamon quick bread. Quick bread that is so addicting that you can eat 6 loaves in a matter of 3 days.
Whether you make it this bread weekly, haven’t seen it in years, or are completely new to Amish Friendship Bread, my goal is to convince you to at least give easy sourdough recipea try. I’m going to make it easy for you with hints! The recipe for the bread itself is coming soon, but first you need the starter.
You don’thave to feel like this is a never-ending recipe. Although it may seem that way, you can easily freeze the 1-cup sourdough portions at the end of the 10 days to make multiple recipes (that we’ll be sharing on our site soon!).
Amish Friendship Bread Starter And Recipe!
But this Amish cinnamon friendship bread? You’ll be wanting to make it. It’s the best in served warm with a slather of butter.
Although this sweet sourdough starter is very easy, you may have questions! Please comment below with your questions and I’ll update this articleto answer your questions as you have them.
**Calorie count shown above is for the friendship bread starter only and measures the calories in an entire cup. You use 1 cup of starter per two loaves of bread.
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I'm Julie Clark, CEO and recipe developer of Tastes of Lizzy T. With my B.A. in Education and over 30 years of cooking and baking, I want to teach YOU the best of our family recipes.Amish Friendship Bread recipe is perfect to share with friends. Now you can make your own with this Friendship bread starter recipe & free printable for giving as a gift!
The other day I was looking through my past emails when I came across an email I had sent my stepmother with anAmish Friendship Bread recipe as well as a Friendship Bread starter recipe. I realized I hadn't made any in years and years!
The starter is fed and kept for ten days, then divided into four portions, three of which you can gift to friends and one you use to bake the most heavenly cinnamon sugared bread! Then your friends can pass along the Amish Friendship Bread recipe to their friends and so on and so on indefinitely.
No Starter Amish Friendship Bread
When I was newly married I would receive a starter a couple of times a year from friends and neighbors and always enjoyed it. Sometimes, though, you want to make this delicious bread and you need to create your own starter if no one you know has some on hand.
I decided to share the starter recipe with you all along with printable instructions and the Amish Friendship Bread recipe gifting sheet you can use to pass it along to friends and family.
When I gifted this set of starter I rolled the plastic bags and put them in standard sized mason jars (with these cute red tops!) It's important your starter doesn't touch metal because of the chemical reaction it will cause so don't gift in the jar without using the plastic bag!
Amish Friendship Bread Without A Starter
I print mine on 80lb cardstock for durability but you can easily print on standard paper as well. You could also laminate it too!
Have you tried an Amish Friendship Bread recipe, there are actually quite a few variations out there. If yours is different than mine I'd love for youto share it in the comments so we can all try it!
Amish Friendship Bread is the perfect recipe to share with friends. Now you can make your own with this starter recipe along with a free printable for gifting starter to others!
Potato Flake Amish Friendship Bread
Join our community of over 20, 000 everyday cooks and I'll send you an eCookbook with 13 of my favorite desserts as a welcome gift!What I should have said is… “Your friends will love it until they don’t anymore and then run away from you because they don’t want any more starter.”
REALLY? Where were you in the late 80s??? Certainly not in Burlingame, CA, where I was. EVERYONE had a bowl of starter on their counter back in ’89. It was the in thing to do: wear leg warmers, rat your hair high, and babysit yeasted starter on your counter for 10 days.
Amish Friendship Bread, in all essence, is an edible chain letter. And while I delete chain letters and “share if you agree” statuses on FB on principle, I’ll never, ever turn down bread. Especially this bread. It’s the best bread. Really. I remember eating it for weeks in middle school. Then one day it vanished…never to be seen again…until now.
Amish Friendship Bread Recipe: How To Bake The Bread Created From Your Amish Friendship Bread Starter
So what is it, really? Basically it’s a “quick” bread made with a sourdough starter. You grow the starter on your counter for 10 days, stirring it and feeding it and loving on it, and then at the end of 10 days you make the most amazing bread with it.
Then, because it’s so friendly, you share 2 cups of the starter with two friends and keep a cup growing on your counter for next time.
You see, that’s what happened to me. All of a sudden I wanted Amish Friendship Bread. I had not had a bite of it in 25 years and one day last month I neeeeeeded a slice. But what’s a girl to do when she wants the bread but doesn’t have the starter?
Amish Friendship Bread With Starter Recipe
You start with yeast and water. Let it proof, like you’re making cinnamon rolls. Then you mix the frothy yeast with flour, sugar, and milk. Stir, loosely cover, and let it sit.
A day later, and each day for 4 days you stir it. Then, on day 5, it’s hungry. You can’t hear it’s tummy growling, but you need to feed it anyway.
Then you stir her again until day 10. On day 10, she’s hungry again. Then she’s multiplied to 4 cups of starter.
Amish Friendship Bread Recipe
Pick two friends and give them each a cup of starter, with directions on how to take care of it – obviously.
That last cup? That’s what you make your bread with. At this point, making it is like quick bread. Just stir together all the ingredients and bake in loaf pans. No kneading or dough hooks or anything. The batter is pretty much like a banana bread batter.
Plus, any bread you can share with friends is the best bread. Until they run screaming from you begging for no more starter. 😉
Amish Friendship Bread And Starter (non Pudding Version) Recipe
Grow some Amish Friendship Bread Starter and then make the most delicious bread with it! The bread is yeasted but tastes like a quick bread! Then share a cup of starter with a friend, so they can enjoy it too.
Serving: 1 slice | Calories: 401 kcal | Carbohydrates: 42 g | Protein: 13 g | Fat: 20 g | Saturated Fat: 7 g | Cholesterol: 61 mg | Sodium: 285 mg | Potassium: 462 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 28 g | Vitamin A: 539 IU | Calcium: 366 mg | Iron: 1 mg
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