| Amish Friendship Bread
Posted: 10/1/2007 6:35:53 PM | | I am looking for the start up recipe for the Amish Friendship Bread. Its the one you add ingredients for 10 days and then share it with your friends. Does anyone have this start up recipe and possibly different variations of how to make it once its time to bake it??? | |
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| Amish Friendship Bread
Posted: 10/1/2007 6:47:48 PM | | If you can make any food that you add to for 10 days then You don't have pets obviously. To make any food in front of a dog means you risk having it disappear fast. I would like to help in that Op. BUT my dogs may have eaten that recipe..Oops. | |
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| Amish Friendship Bread
Posted: 10/1/2007 7:03:39 PM | here is a link with the starter recipe, as well as the bread recipe....Ive done this before substituting dofferent falvors of pudding to make different breads...It was really good...
heres the link...
http://vabutter.tripod.com/ginnysrecipes/id35.html | |
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| Amish Friendship Bread
Posted: 10/2/2007 2:36:17 PM | | Thank you i will definitely try this recipe out!! The girls at work were talking about this recipe the other day and i said i would try and find it for them....so here goes....i'm going to go and try it....will let you know how it comes out!! Thanks again much!!! | |
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Posted: 10/2/2007 3:40:26 PM | | Have done the "Friendship" bread thing a few times...you need lots of people to give away starters once you have got it going and it can get a little costly...what I do when I come across someone who has it and they give me one of their starters is go on a baking spree adding everything I can think of from applesause out of a jar to pumkin out of a can or just leave it simple with the cinnamon sugar...It is delicious on a cold morning with coffee...One last thing it freezes well, just make sure you let it cool dowm and wrap it up good, will keep it's taste for a least 3 months...Almost forgot, if you are going to freeze do not put on the powder sugar glaze until you take it out and defrost it. | |
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| Amish Friendship Bread
Posted: 10/7/2007 6:40:46 PM | Brandied Fruit Starter & Friendship Cake
Ingredients
Brandied Fruit Starter
1 (15 1/4-ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained
1 (16-ounce) can sliced peaches, drained
1 (17-ounce) can apricot halves, drained
1 (10-ounce) jar maraschino cherries, drained
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups brandy
Friendship Cake
1 cup margarine, melted
1 3/4 cups sugar
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 eggs
2 cups brandied fruit, drained
1 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup brandied fruit juice
Confectioners’ sugar (optional)
Instructions
For brandied fruit starter, combine pineapple, peaches, apricots, maraschino cherries, sugar and brandy in nonmetal bowl. Stir gently. Cover and let stand at room temperature for 3 weeks, stirring twice a week. Serve fruit over ice cream or pound cake, reserving at least 1 cup starter at all times.
To replenish starter, add 1 cup sugar and 1 of first 4 ingredients every 1 to 3 weeks, alternating fruit each time. Stir gently. Cover and let stand at room temperature for 3 days before using.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Well grease and flour 10-inch fluted tube pan.
For friendship cake, combine margarine and sugar in large bowl. Beat well. Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, cloves and nutmeg. Add to margarine mixture, beating well. Add eggs. Beat well. Coarsely chop brandied fruit. Stir into batter. Add pecans and juice. Mix well.
Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour, or until done. Cool in pan for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely on a wire rack. Sprinkle confectioners’ sugar to taste on top.
Serving quantity: Brandied Fruit Starter makes 6 cups;
Friendship Cake serves 12 to 16. | |
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| Amish Friendship Bread
Posted: 10/7/2007 7:55:18 PM | I remember my mom having a jar of this on the counter all the time when I was a kid. We never had too much of it because besides baking with it or giving it away, she ate it spooned over ice cream!!  yummy!! | |
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| Amish Friendship Bread
Posted: 10/11/2007 8:19:05 PM | not sure if this is what you are looking for but it sounds like it.
**Use a large deep glass or plastic container
Mix 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk in this container.
Cover lightly. If container has a lid, leave it slightly ajar or place cheesecloth over container and secure with a rubber band. Leave at room temperature-Do not refrigerate.
Stir every day for 17 days
on day 18 do nothing
days 19, 20 and 21 -Stir only
day 22 Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk and then stir
days 23, 24, 25, 26- stir only
day 27 Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk and stir
At this time you should have about 4 cups of starter. Put one cup of starter into two ziplock bags to give to two friends. keep two cups-one to bake and one to keep going( if you want to keep it going) otherwise you can give starter to three friends.
With this one cup bags of starter follow these directions (will have to give these directions to the two or three friends for them to follow also).
Day one- Do nothing
Day 2, 3, 4, and 5- mush the bag 2 times a day
Day 6- Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Mush together thoroughly.
Day 7, 8 and 9- Mush the bag and let the air out 2 times a day.
Day 10- Pour and squeeze the contents into a big bowl. Add 1 cup milk, 1 cup flour, and 1 cup sugar. Stir and pour four 1 cup starters into 4 ziplock bags and give these starters to more friends to keep it going. Don't forget to give them a copy of the directions.
You will have a little left in the bowl (about 1/2 to 3/4 cup) Add to this - 1 cup oil, 1/2 cup milk, 3 eggs and 1 tsp. vanilla. Mix well.
In a separate bowl, mix 2 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 and 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp. salt, 2 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. baking soda, 1 large box of instant vanilla or banana pudding** and 1 cup chopped nuts or fruit (optional) Mix together with contents of above bowl.
Spray 2 loaf pans and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixture to coat the bottoms of the pans. Pour in dough mixture and sprinkle the top with cinnamon/sugar before baking.
Bake 1 hour at 325 degrees.
** Can use 2 small boxes of instant pudding. Try different flavor combinations-butterscotch and vanilla, white chocolate and cheesecake, etc.
Hope this is what you wanted-If so, have fun and enjoy- this is awesome bread and is especially good warmed with butter on it!! | |
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| Amish Friendship Bread
Posted: 3/27/2008 10:00:09 PM | My question is, if the Amish do not use modern things, or modern technology, unless rented....then do they really use pudding mix?? Just curious. I am so often confused by what the Amish do and do not do. I have met quite a few and really enjoy talking to them once I can get them talking. I respect their beliefs, but it must be awfully hard for them trying to live their lifestyle in a world that makes it increasingly impossible to do.
Oh, I have made the brandied fruit and friendship cake a long time ago. That was really cool. I am glad you posted the recipe because someone at my church was looking for it. I think all of us are going to do it and have enough to give out to hundreds at holiday time. Thanks! | |
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| Amish Friendship Bread
Posted: 6/11/2008 6:57:15 PM | As far as I know the Amish are similar to the Mennonites that we have here in Ontario... They use a lot of modern things... just no hydro, very few have a vehicle, and no land line telephones... however they do us generators for hydro & to run their computers which they have access to the interenet via satellite... and they use cell phones... they can't be connected to the land (hydro wires, phone wires, cable tv etc., )
We always see the mennonite families in stores buying candy/chips etc., because pretty much everything else they make themselves... | |
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| Amish Friendship Bread
Posted: 6/13/2008 9:41:21 AM | I have the recipe on my website
cooksncrafts.8m.com/Recipes/friendshipbread.html
it might be similar to one that was already posted
hope this helps | |
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Posted: 6/14/2008 5:59:35 PM | that receipe went about the office for months - substitutes are common and I added less sugar and another pudding mix - carmel with a cup of coconut combined with vanilla pudding and it was very good. Also could add fruit like dried cranberries or blueberries. | |
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Posted: 6/14/2008 7:11:00 PM | Hi just a quick note about Mennonite vs Amish. They are very different from one another - no real comparison that we might notice, except that they each dress differently than the mainstream. I've lived near both the Amish and Mennonites in Indiana/Ohio/Illinois and here in the Central Valley of California. The Mennonites are very modern really, owning autos , using electricity etc. But they dress much more modestly, with women wearing old fashioned dresses of many colors and a white opaque cap. Last week I ran into a friend who is Mennonite at the local garden center. She had on her modest dress and the cutest flip flops I've ever seen.
The Amish on the other hand, cling to the old ways, more like in 1850, farming with draft horses, using horse and buggy to travel, eschewing electricity and autos. Their dress is quite more severe, lots of blue and black fabric. The women do wear a cap but I remember it being dark, maybe black.
I don't know what the doctrine is of either religion.
So summarising, they are quite different to the eye and in their lifestyles.
I suspect the real Amish Friendship Bread Recipe is more akin to the one with milk, sugar and flour and then used like a sourdough to have an everlasting yeast. I think Salmon is right--the fruit and pudding deal doesn't sound too authentic. I have some food history books. I'll do some checking to see if there's any info on how the name came to be. It's like the Mormon Fry Bread or Mormon biscuits recipe that goes around--it isn't Mormon--it's a campfire recipe used by everybody and their brother who trekked to anywhere in this country in a wagon train, and likely exists in every culture on earth in some form. I mean bread and grease are pretty basic foods, right?
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| Amish Friendship Bread
Posted: 8/15/2008 12:54:18 AM | thanks for the variations have made it before, but never thought to add the other flavors and it got old fast. Making it and freezing it will be good for gifts as well.
thanks again. | |
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