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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Try 1 cup dried berries. I also lay out flat on a large cookie sheet- comes out like biuscotti. Freezes great- I often eat right out of the freezer.
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I’ve made this years ago and have recently gotten started again. It is good bread and have found lots of variations online. However, I never get mine to raise very well. It is usually only a couple inches high and flat on top. What’s wrong?
Wow, I can remember how good Amish Friendship Bread tastes, just by seeing the picture! I remember how fun it was to receive this when I was younger. Now I want to make some! Thanks for the recipe and the great post!
It’s been many moons since I’ve had this delicious bread. Thanks for this post, I’m definitely going to start a batch! And freeze some for later!
I’m visiting my mom and she has some she’s going to make into bread tomorrow and I’m going to take a batch of started home with in my luggage – in a couple of ziplock bags 🙂
typed my site wrong!! oh well!!
I love this!! We made all through the holidays!! Instead of making a loaf I made muffins which turned out great. Just don’t bake for as long. They were eaiser for the kids to take to school or just grab and munch!!!
And she is still your friend? The bread is delicious, but the smell of that batter is enough to knock you over!
I add fresh raspberries just before baking. Yumm!!!
I used to do this and got so fat off of it because it was so good. I also ran out of friends that wanted it. So, when I divided it up I would put each bag in the freezer for later. I am sure you are not supposed to do that but it worked just fine.
My wife and I usually get this several time throughout the year. Usually from coworkers. It always is delish! Yum Yum!
I have given you an award!!!
Oh this takes me back. I did this almost 10 years ago from a starter that was given to me by a friend. I made mine lemony… it was SO good. I’m definitely going to have to start another round of this! Thanks for a good memory.
Strange that you would write about this today. I was given a starter 9 days ago and wondered if I would like it or not. Now I can hardly wait for tomorrow to get here. thanks so much for the variations, all I had was changing from vanilla pudding to chocolate. I am sure it smells wonderful baking.