Sourdough Bread Recipe With Amish Starter

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…

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.

Amish Friendship Cinnamon Bread

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!).

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.

Baking And Selling Amish Friendship Bread: Recipe And Complete Instructions

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.

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.Freelance writer and cocktail book author Colleen Graham is a seasoned mixologist who loves sharing her knowledge of spirits and passion for preparing drinks.

What Is Amish Friendship Bread? A Recipe And 101

Amish sourdough bread, also known as friendship bread, is traditionally gifted. It uses a starter that can be used to make several kinds of yeast bread, including Amish cinnamon bread. As the baker, you would keep one cup of starter mix to create a new cycle of bread making, then give the remaining three cups of starter discard to friends so they can make their own.

The Amish friendship bread starter is sweeter than a regular sourdough starter and uses yeast to give it a jump start. It is then customary to feed the starter with flour, water or milk, and sugar or honey before removing a cup to use. A five-day baking cycle feeds the starter every day and uses the resulting mixture to bake a loaf or two of bread. The leftover mixture is then used to begin the next fermentationcycle.

Even if this is your first try at sourdough, don't be intimidated. Amish sourdough is one of the easiest sourdoughs to make, and the resulting bread is delicious as a side dish or for sandwiches.

Amish Friendship Bread Recipe, Starter Recipe & Gifting Printable

This recipe is a great introduction to sourdough bread. Besides making the starter, the steps are just like any other yeast bread, so bakers should find it very familiar. The bread tastes great, with a nice crumb and balance of sweet and sour. It’s also filling, a nice side for dinner, and excellent sandwich bread. —Colleen Graham

Sourdough bread will stay fresh for a week, possibly a few days longer, and should be stored in a bread bin or paper bag. The bread can be frozen for several months as well.

Traditionally, sourdough bread uses a starter instead of commercial yeast, but some bread recipes (such as this one) add yeast as a supplement. Classic sourdough bread can take many hours to rise (often, two 6-hour proofing sessions), which helps the dough develop sourdough's signature tangy taste and chewy texture. By adding yeast, the rising time is significantly reduced, and, in turn, this softens the taste and texture.

Amish Friendship White Sandwich Bread

As it cools, any bread may collapse, typically because the gluten structure is not strong enough to hold the bread up in the middle. Kneading the dough for too little time or letting it rise too long are two common causes. Another is a sudden change in temperature while baking; resist the urge to open the oven door, even for a quick peek.

*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2, 000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

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Amish Friendship Bread {no Starter Required!} + Video

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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 Starter

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.

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.

Sourdough Pancakes (amish Friendship Bread Starter) Recipe

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?

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.

Amish Friendship Bread Is Getting Me Through 2022

Then you stir her again until day 10. On day 10, she’s hungry again. Then she’s multiplied to 4 cups of starter.

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.

How To Make Your Own Amish Friendship Bread Starter

Plus, any bread you can share with friends is the best bread. Until they run screaming from you begging for no more starter. 😉

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

How To Bake Amish Bread From Scratch In The Oven

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