Amish Friendship Bread Starter Recipe is the perfect way to begin a friendship tradition. Ten Days ago my friend gave me a Ziploc bag filled with some batter along with an instruction sheet. She told me that I was to keep mashing the bag, add some ingredients and then make bread. I told her if she was my true friend she would just make me the bread (just kidding)!
My sweet friend told me it would be a great thing to blog about——–now I was on board. My husband and I cared for our batter every day and yesterday was the BIG day, I made the bread. It was really delicious and now I have my bags of batter ready to go to three very special friends!
Related: If you are a bread lover try my Pumpkin Bread Recipe.
So I began writing out the recipe and instructions and then realized this does all of you absolutely no good—-you don’t have a starter. But lucky all of you adventurous bakers a quick google search led me to many recipes for the starter.
Beginning the Amish Friendship Bread Starter
It is very important to use plastic or wooden utensils and plastic or glass containers when making this—no metal.
Gather Your Ingredients
Ingredients:
1 pkg. active dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water (110°F)
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup white sugar
1 cup warm milk (110°F)
Directions For Making Your Friendship Bread starter
1. In a small bowl dissolve the yeast in warm water for about 10 minutes. Stir well.
2. In a glass or plastic container, combine 1 cup sifted flour and 1 cup sugar. Mix thoroughly or the flour will get lumpy when you add the milk.
3. Slowly stir in warm milk and the dissolved yeast mixture. Cover the mixture loosely with a lid or plastic wrap. The mixture will get bubbly. Consider this Day 1 of the cycle or the day you receive the starter. I would put this mixture in a ziplock bag so I could continue with the recipe.
For the next 10 days use the starter according to the instructions.
Amish Friendship Bread Starter from momswhothink.
Storage and Additions
Allrecipes has another Amish Friendship Bread Starter recipe with tips about freezing the starter. There are many variations to make Pumpkin Bread, Strawberry Bread, Carrot……….. all shared by momswhothink.
Amish Friendship Bread Starter Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pkg. active dry yeast
- 1/4 cup warm water 110°F
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup warm milk 110°F
Instructions
- In a small bowl dissolve the yeast in warm water for about 10 minutes. Stir well.
- In a glass or plastic container, combine 1 cup sifted flour and 1 cup sugar. Mix thoroughly or the flour will get lumpy when you add the milk.
- Slowly stir in warm milk and the dissolved yeast mixture. Cover the mixture loosely with a lid or plastic wrap. The mixture will get bubbly. Consider this Day 1 of the cycle, or the day you receive the starter. I would put this mixture in a ziplock bag so I could continue with the recipe.
- For the next 10 days use the starter according to the instructions.
Notes
Nutrition
I have created an easy to use free printable on how to use the starter and the recipe for baking the bread. Enjoy! Amish Friendship Bread Recipe and Instructions
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If you have a favorite or tips about making this bread please leave a comment!
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We’ve done this before!!! YUMMY!
You’ll love this ~
You can freeze your starter.
Yep ~ Toss the bag in the freezer and when your ready to start another round of making and sharing this tastey treat just pull it out and your at DAY 1.
Funny little fact ~ it doesn’t freeze solid, you can still squish the stuff.
Also~ Play with the flavor a bit as in the above link. We’ve added Choc. pudding (I hate that one but kids and DH loved it) my fav is the traditional way with a bit more cinn. added in everywhere and diced apples mixed in last just before baking ~
Oh yum ~ I’m grabbing a bag out of the freezer tonight.
i had a starter last week and dropped it and it exploded on the floor the day i was supposed to make it. lucky for me, my sister in law gave me a starter from hers and in two days i will make it! i was on the friendship bread kick last year and it is SO good.
Oh I had this passed to me once. I loved it. I made it so much that I got sick of it and then I never got the starter again. I had hoped someone would pass it to me again some day.
I’m thrilled you gave us the starter info. I’m going to make some up. Thanks!
Hugs,
Joanne
Ooops, forgot have added good post! Waiting for your next post!
Oh I had this passed to me once. I loved it. I made it so much that I got sick of it and then I never got the starter again. I had hoped someone would pass it to me again some day.
I’m thrilled you gave us the starter info. I’m going to make some up. Thanks!
Hugs,
Joanne
I know what I’m gonna be doing tonight!!!
I have done this a couple different times in my life. It is so delicious! Nice to know I can start my own starter when I get a craving for them. Thanks for sharing!
I LOVE this! My family and I passed around the Amish Friendship Bread years ago. It’s so much fun. It’s so good with chocolate chips or cinnamon and sugar! It makes me want to whip up some starter! Thanks! 🙂
what a nice thing to do!
Ok, so how strange is it that I was just talking about this bread with my husband last night and how I could really go for some? I’m going to make my starter today! Thanks!
I was passed a starter about 2 years ago and I made several loaves. Eventually I ran out of friends and room for loaves of bread in my freezer. I am excited to know I can make my own starter! Thanks!
We had various Amish Friendship Bread starters throughout my childhood. I remember the fun of feeding it, and the smell of it baking. And then I remember my mom getting more and more tired with doing it over and over again… And then we didn’t have any anymore. 😉
Oh fun! About this time last year I passed around and got back the starters for about 3 months straight. Now I’m wanting some back…not necessarily enough to begin from scratch, though 🙂
Ha! This is so funny you wrote about this this morning! We too had a friend give us the batter, and my husband has been caring for it, and baked it last night. It’s sitting here on my desk (my breakfast) as I type…
Funny thing is, I remember doing this as a child…it takes me back.
Mmmmmm…we were passed along the friendship bread as well. It’s amazingly delicious!