Friendship Bread Recipe Without Yeast

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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.

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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…

Amish Friendship Bread (+ Starter)

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!).

Cinnamon Sugar Amish Friendship Bread

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.

Amish Friendship Bread No Knead Sourdough Bread

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.

Yeast Amish Friendship Bread Recipe And Starter

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 With 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!

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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!

Sourdough Starter Recipe For 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!With this recipe for No-Starter Amish Friendship Bread, there is all the flavor of a traditional Amish Friendship Bread but none of the wait!

If you aren’t familiar with Amish Friendship Bread then you are missing out on some of the yummiest sweet bread you’ve ever tasted. Growing up, this bread was popular among the Navy wives in our little base community.

To make the traditional Amish Friendship Bread, you need to get a “bread starter” from one of your friends (or make it yourself). The starter is made with a mixture of flour, sugar and milk placed into a resealable bag.You knead the bag once a day for a few days And then you have to “feed” it a few days after that. After the tenth day, you can divide it all up into 10 resealable bags and pass them out to friends, hence the name, Friendship Bread). They can then make the bread by adding a few more ingredients to the starter or start the process all over again to make more starters. Bottom line, it takes a bit of time and dedication so I’m going to show you how to make a cheater version!

No Starter (starter Free) Amish Friendship Bread

Preheat oven to 325f degrees. Spray two bread loaf pans (or 8 mini loaf pans) with nonstick cooking spray.Sprinkle half of the cinnamon sugar mixture on the sides and bottom of loaf pans.

In a large bowl, stir together buttermilk, oil, eggs and vanilla.Stir in sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt.Then, slowly stir in flour and instant vanilla pudding. Finally, gently stir in chopped walnuts.

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Bake for 45 minutes (for mini loaves) and about an hour for full-size loaves.Allow to cool completely. Then gently remove the loaves and pack them into cellophane bags.

Amish Friendship Bread Starter And Recipe!

Calories: 325 kcal | Carbohydrates: 44 g | Protein: 8 g | Fat: 13 g | Saturated Fat: 2 g | Cholesterol: 66 mg | Sodium: 297 mg | Potassium: 260 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 18 g | Vitamin A: 165 IU | Vitamin C: 0.2 mg | Calcium: 122 mg | Iron: 2.2 mg

“The Country Cook” is not a dietician or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories can vary quite a bit depending on which brands were used.Amish friendship bread requires only a handful of ingredients and 10-15 minutes of prep! I don’t know about you, but that’s my kind of recipe. Bisquick Banana Bread, Lemon Poppy Seed Bread, and Blueberry Bread are a few of more of our favorite sweet breads!

A long time ago a friend gave me a bag of mush and told me to follow the rules – to knead it, add things to it, and speak nice things to it, and one day it would turn into a glorious loaf of Amish Friendship Bread.

How To Make Amish Friendship Bread Starter

I did those things, and a few days later, it indeed, was a glorious loaf of Amish bread! And it even left me with more mush to give away to my friends, spreading love from one kitchen to another.

So, what is it? It’s a cake-like bread that is made with a starter that is shared in a manner similar to a chain letter.

For many years I thought If I wanted to taste that delicious bread again, I would need to be given a bag of mush (aka an Amish bread “starter”).

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Amish Friendship Bread — Mommy's Kitchen

Then, I realized I could still make it from scratch – without the starter. And so today, I bring you this divine Amish Bread, that has been tried and proven true for your kitchen. Good news – it only takes an hour to make rather than days!

If you’re extra anxious to eat this bread, but don’t have any buttermilk on hand, you can make your own using these tips !

MIX + DIVIDE. In another bowl, or in a stand mixer, cream together butter, sugar, and eggs and then add the buttermilk, flour, and baking soda. Divide ½ of the batter into two greased loaf pans (in other words, ¼ of the mix in each pan). (I used two 5″ x 9″ metal loaf pans that are 3″ deep.)

Shortcut Amish Apple Bread

LAYER. Sprinkle some of the cinnamon sugar mixture on top of the batter in each pan, reserving about ¼ to sprinkle on the tops. Evenly add remaining batter to your two pans, and then sprinkle on the rest of your cinnamon topping.

TIP: Altitude, weather, oven and even the type of pan can all affect the bake time. If you find that your bread is taking longer to cook in the middle, use a piece of tin foil to tent over