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Someone just dropped off some starter  ....The problem is I am a TOTAL Slacker when it comes to following through with this bread.  So can I just make I what they dropped off tonight or tomorrow morning? I think I have everything I need (from the last time someone dropped some off )
It would be nice to actually taste it  .
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You sound like me, Mary Chris. I'm so bad at making it through the 10 days and then finding homes for it.
You CAN just use what was dropped off in the recipe right now. Whoever gave it to you is using the exact same starter for a recipe and giving the extra cups to others for starter to nuture and pass on again - but it is the same product. You can find other recipes which use the starter. This site has some yummy sounding ones like Lemon Poppy Seed Amish Freindship Bread and Amish Friendship Chocolate bread.
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Or you can give it to me and I'll take good care of it and we can bake together and divide in ten days 
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Yeah! What a great win-win situation for me. Elizabeth babysits my starter , (maybe she'll take a few boys too ) AND I get to make those yummy recipes from Mary in ten days!
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I always make and/or add stuff on the "wrong" days and its fine. I also cut it in half (the adding stuff) so I only have 2 new ones, which is doable for just me to keep. I don't know anyone to give them to.
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I cut it to a quarter and then had enough to back the bread and a starter for in 10 days. Also you can freeze the starter. Now I am so hungry for some but I don't want to back until it is under 80. Annie
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Mary Chris,
Was the 21st Day One? Do you know?
Also, as I was feeding the starter with unbleached sugar the other day, it struck me funny that the recipe calls for instant pudding. Are the Amish big on instant mixes?
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Elizabeth wrote:
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Was the 21st Day One? Do you know?
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This sounds more like an NFP discussion
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Mary G wrote:
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Was the 21st Day One? Do you know?
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ROFL! That's exactly what Mike said when he walked in on me asking Mary Beth about it this morning. He was a bit  at the subject, considering my companion...
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Becky dropped it off at my house on the 21st.
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We used to call it "Amish Friendship Goop" when I worked in the parking garage at National Airport...
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The bread was so yummy! It really hit the spot. The Leprechaun remarked, "This bread is to die for!" I am not sure where he comes up with this stuff!
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Elizabeth wrote:
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Yes, take a look a some more modern Amish recipe books--plenty of mixes tossed in with very frugal and more traditional old fasioned recipes.
I like reading the books, they show the frugal times (milk and toast "soup" and times of plenty--recipes full of pork (in the late fall) and eggs once the hens start laying well.
Also, Amish housewives are intensely practical in many ways so, if you are not using an electric mixer, it is probably easier to add moisture to a cake with a pudding mix rather that creaming in more butter.
BTW,after living here and "Amish" watching as I drive through our area for a few years I think the bread is well named. I believe that the Amish do share their bread and time. I see visiting going on, not necessarily the huge "family picnics", although there is plenty of that, but a few women gathered on a porch with children playing on the swingset, women walking or together at an auction.
The glimpses into the social interactions and support is interesting to me.
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Viv,
I wonder if we can dig up an Amish friendship bread recipe that is old enough that it's "from scratch." I'd really rather not use instant pudding, particularly vanilla. I'm not a big fan of yellow dye.
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Elizabeth wrote:
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I wonder if we can dig up an Amish friendship bread recipe that is old enough that it's "from scratch." I'd really rather not use instant pudding, particularly vanilla. I'm not a big fan of yellow dye. |
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I will see what I can find.
Lost my favorite Mennonite recipe book in the fire and have not replaced it.
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Here are some variations. Some call for other flavors of pudding but the first one listed omits the pudding and adds bananas.
Here's one for all the coffee lovers.
Here's the link to lots of variations...many still with pudding, but not all (the most variations are under #3).
Happy baking!
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YES! They really are. My midwife worked in Amish country for a stint and she said their diets were awful! Lots and lots of instant foods.
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That's interesting. We get much of our food from an Amish farmer and it's super-healthy: all organic, grass-fed, free-range--the works. I don't think this family would ever dream of using pudding mix or anything like it. I do know of several other Amish families who are the same way, but I do think the farmer we work with is sort of a renegade in this area. He is otherwise very, very traditional, but is really into helping his neighbors get back to more traditional foods.
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MarieC wrote:
Here are some variations. Some call for other flavors of pudding but the first one listed omits the pudding and adds bananas.
Here's one for all the coffee lovers.
Here's the link to lots of variations...many still with pudding, but not all (the most variations are under #3).
Happy baking!
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I saw those when I was researching last week. Bananas are an allergen here. The International Coffee have artificial flavor and color too. Hmmm...
Guess I need to go research what exactly instant pudding is...
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Pudding mix-free recipe, tested by me! Enjoy!
Amish Friendship Bread Starter:
1 c. sugar
1 c. milk
1 c. flour
Day one: mix ingredients in a large container with lid (and expansion room, says your typist). Days 2, 3 and 4: Stir with a wooden spoon. Day 5: Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Mixture will be lumpy but will smooth out in a day or two. Day 10: Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Stir. Pour 1 cup of mixture into each of three plastic containers. Give each container to 3 friends. Save the remaining batch, which should be about 1 cup, for yourself. Follow the recipe for Amish Friendship Bread that uses starter. Give copies of the recipe to friends with whom you're sharing the starter.
Amish Friendship Bread
1 cup starter
2/3 cup vegetable oil
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 to 1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
Combine all ingredients and mix well. Put batter in well-greased and sugared 9x5x3 inch loaf pan. Bake 350 degrees 45-50 min. Cool 10 min. before removing from pan. (You could make 2 dozen muffins from this dough instead.)
To keep starter going, stir in 1 cup milk, 1 cup flour and 1 cup sugar to reserve starter 5 days later and another 1 cup of each on Day 10. Stir on intervening days. At the end of this period you'll have enough starter to share again with friends.
You can add raisins, chocoalte chips, nuts, dates or berries/diced fruit.
Source: Maryland Gazette newspaper.
Tested: Reagan National Airport parking garage contractor employees, 1993-1994.
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