Amish Friendship Bread

Do not refrigerate.

If air gets in the bag, let it out.

It is normal for the batter to rise and ferment.

DAY 1:  DO NOTHING.  (This is the day you got the bag)

DAY 2:  Mush the bag

DAY 3:  Mush the bag

DAY 4:  Mush the bag

DAY 5:  Mush the bag

DAY 6:  Add to the bag, 1 cup of each: all purpose flour, sugar 

             and milk.  Close the bag and mush.

DAY 7:  Mush the bag

DAY 8:  Mush the bag

DAY 9:  Mush the bag

DAY 10:  FOLLOW DIRECTIONS BELOW:

Pour the entire bag into a plastic bowl.  Add 1½ cups of each:  all purpose flour, sugar and milk.  Mix everything together.  Measure out 4 separate portions, 1 cup each, into gallon size Ziploc bags.  These are your starters.  When you give to your friends, be sure to give them this recipe.  Don’t forget to put a date on each bag, to keep track of the days.

Preheat oven to 325, and add the following to the batter still in the bowl:

3 eggs                   2 cups of all purpose flour       2 tsp cinnamon

½ cup milk           1 lg instant vanilla pudding    ½ tsp vanilla extract

1 cup oil               1½ tsp baking powder             ½ tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt             1 cup sugar

Grease 2 lg loaf pans.  Mix another ½ cup sugar and 1½ tsp. cinnamon.

Dust the pan with ½ the cinnamon sugar.  Pour batter evenly and sprinkle the rest of the sugar on top.  Bake for 1 hour, then cool for 15 minutes before removing from pan.

NOTE:  If you keep a starter for yourself, you’ll be baking every ten days.

If you give them all away, you must wait until someone gives you one back, and start all over again.  A good friend will return one to you!