Amish Friendship Bread

   A coworker who knows my love of bread baking brought me a starter for friendship bread. It takes several days of squishing and mushing in the bag, 5 days into it, you feed it with a cup each of flour, sugar and milk. On the 9th day, you feed it once more and take out four 1cup servings to bag and give to friends. You use the rest of the dough/batter to make your bread at that time.

   I chose to use all the starter dough/batter and make 6 loaves of bread. It takes about 2 cups of starter for each recipe and each recipe makes 2 loaves. You add the list of ingredients that should come with the starter your friend gives you. It's roughly 3 eggs, 1 cup each of sugar and milk, 1 and 1/2 cups flour, 2 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp baking soda and powder, vanilla and salt. Lastly you add one large package of vanilla pudding mix. Stir it together. 

   Take a cup of sugar and a tbsp of cinnamon and mix. Grease 2, or in my case 6, loaf pans and dust with cinnamon sugar mixture. Pour in the batter leaving at least 1 inch at the top for rising. Dust the tops of the loaves with the remaining sugar mixture. Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes. The bread is amazing. Very moist and sweet - good for breakfast. 

   Now, I just need to get the starter recipe from my coworker. :)  Stay tuned.