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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Use for pancakes….pancakes is the best.
I LOVE THIS BREAD! My mom actually was able to carry a starter to me since I live overseas. What I learned from her was that you can still divide it into the little bags to have starters, and freeze it. You can defrost it on the counter and consider that Day 1 again….or bake it that day. Experiment with it yourself. We have…it still works out great.
Great looking bread! And simple recipe. Thanks!
I had never heard of this. My husband was given a starter and a finished loaf to try. The smell of the starter was so nasty, I had smelled it sitting there before he had told me the story of what it was and how to do it. If our friend hadn’t given us a sample loaf I don’t know if I would have done the starter. You don’t think it will be good, but it is AMAZING!!!!! Thanks for posting the starter. Now if I stop making it (which I am sure will happen) I can make a starter and start up again. I am thinking of making these for Christmas gifts…..Will take awhile to get the loaves baked. Only ? I have is The size of the pans is not specified…It just says 2 medium pans for when you bake them…I am worried I will use wrong size pans, and mess it up (over cook it or something.) Any suggestions welcome.
That’s a wonderful and unique idea, I usually just give whole loaves of tasty bread to various friends but this will make a nice change.
I myself ended up with way to much. I do love the Bread so much. I have found if you have the time to bake. Do that and give to friends then they do not have to babysit the bag. I think that is half the fun, Mash Baby Mash.
we have run out of people that like to babysit gooey bags 🙂 what i discovered was that the stuff that is left is equal to 2 cups, so instead of making 4 bags, we now make 2 (one for us, and one for someone else) and then 2 cups go in a bowl for preparation to make loaves, and what is left stays and is made into loaves. this recipe is so yummy we easily are able to take care of the 4 loaves, and when it does slow down, one of us takes a loaf to work to share with coworkers. hope this helps!
I would also be interested in the last comment, not sure how to translate it?
I rec’d a starter kit 20 days ago and already made my 2 loaves. I was only able to give away one of the 4 starter kits, so I have been keeping up with the remaining 3. I am supposed to bake today, but do not want to create 12 starter kits. Any suggestions on what to do? I don’t want to waste 3 cups sugar. flour & milk just to bring me to the point where I am ready to add the other ingredients and begin baking. Do I just fore go the cup of sugar, flour and milk and begin adding the other ingredients?? Please help!
Has anyone tried to make a recipe without the pudding mix? Is there a variation that is more “basic” in bread making?
I was wondering….the starter bag that I have, if I didn’t divide it up and pass it along…I know not the point of Amish Friendship Bread….BUT could I bake up the whole bag? If so, what would be the ratio…how many batches would I get out of it?
I just got a starter from a friend last night. I had to laugh about it being “Amish” bread…since I bet the Amish don’t even use instant pudding mix. Anyway, it still looks like a tasty bread. My friend who gave it to me said her husband calls it “crack bread.” I’m glad to know that I can freeze the starter and I’m glad to have the starter recipe just in case I have to start over for some reason. I’m really excited about making a loaf on Monday!!
I was sad when I moved from Georgia to Idaho and had to throw out my starter that I was saving in the freezer.. I’m soooo excited to finally have the recipe to make my own when I want!! 🙂 THANK YOU!!
I have also done this many times, and found it to be almost fool proof. To bb, you can still use this batter at the stage your in, just add the 1 cup of milk, sugar and flour, and your on your way again. You just have to “feed” the batter to keep it going. Don’t freak if you can’t bake on day 10, it will be just fine.
Has anyone out there found a really good carrot variation?
So – I haven’t had a chance to make the bread yet and on at least day 20 of the ‘starter’ – will it still be good to make the bread or should I just throw it out?