Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Getting to know the neighbors…
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We moved into our house this Spring and to be honest we have not done a good job getting to know the neighbors. In my last neighborhood one of the ladies started this tradition…
Amish Friendship Bread
I am sure lots of you have heard of this or done it at least once, but it has been awhile since I have and I want to start it back up again!
For those of you who haven’t Amish Friendship Bread it is, “Amish Friendship Bread is a type of sourdough starter that is often shared in a manner similar to a chain letter.[1] The starter is a substitute for baking yeast and can be used to make many kinds of yeast-based breads, shared with friends, or frozen for future use. The sweet, cake-like Amish Cinnamon Bread is a common bread that is made from this starter; it is a simple, stirred quickbread that includes a substantial amount of sugar and vegetable oil, with a mild cinnamon flavor. It has characteristics of both pound cake and coffee cake.
A common recipe using this starter suggests using one cup (240 ml) of it to make bread, keeping one cup to start a new cycle, and giving the remaining two cups to friends. The process of sharing the starter makes it somewhat like a chain letter. One cup of starter makes one standard loaf of bread.”
Martha Stewart has a great recipe to get your started.
So does Recipezaar and Allrecipes.
What a great way to introduce yourself to neighbors and bake up some yummy bread.
Tags: monday, weekly family activity
For some odd reason, your comparing sourdough starter to a chain letter hit my funny bone. Very cute.
I’ve never made this, and unfortunately I’m not close enough to my neighbors to know if they’re bakers or not (isn’t that sad, but common?). But my family is Amish, way-way-back, and I’ve never seen this in any cookbook or heard of it from my grandmothers. I wonder if it’s really an Amish recipe, or that’s just an adjective applied to it.
Either way, I’m going to give it a try. Cinnamon, cake, you really can’t go wrong, huh?
Yumm! I LOVE Amish Friendship bread. It has the best taste and it’s so fun to keep it going.
My friend JaNece and I traded out the vanilla for chocolate once and it was awesome.