Amish Friendship Bread

At our family reunion my cousin, Amy, brought the most delicious Amish Friendship bread and handed out three bags of sour dough starter and a recipe to go along with it. I was so tickled that I got some of the starter! I feel bad because I didn't snap a picture of Amy at the reunion. Next time I'll get her picture and show you how pretty she is!
Here's a close up of the instructions.
I was excited to get a bag of it as I have been wanting to do this. I had some sour dough started when I was a newlywed and was just recently thinking that it would be a fun thing to do again. What perfect timing!
You just keep it in the bag and do nothing for the first five days except knead the dough by smashing the bag. Back when I did this years ago, it was in a bowl and it didn't smell very good and attracted fruit flies. I like this new way of having it in a zip lock bag.
On day 6 you add one cup of flour, one cup of sugar and one cup of milk. You stir it all up and zip up the bag again. Then you mush up the bag to mix it all up really well.
It sits on the counter again for 4 more days. All you need to do is smash the bag and knead the dough every day.
On day ten you add one cup of flour, one cup of sugar and one cup of milk and mix it all up. Then you take out 3 cups of mix and place 1 cup of mix into three seperate 1 galon zip lock bags.
This is where the friendship comes in, you pass a bag of the sour dough onto one of your friends along with the recipe and a taste of the bread and they keep it going! Who knows how old this starter really is! You save one cup for yourself and you put it in the bowl. To this you add 1 cup of oil, 1/2 cup of milk, 3 eggs and 1 tsp vanilla, then set aside.
In a separate bowl mix all the dry ingredients.
This is 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of sugar, 1-1/2 tsp baking powder, 2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp baking soda and 1 box of instant vanilla pudding.
Mix the dry ingredients with the liquid. Stir until well blended.
Doesn't that look good!!!
You need to grease a baking pan and sprinkle with sugar.
Pour the dough into the baking pans and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
Through the magic of blogging, an hour has already gone by and it's all done! Mmmmm! You should smell my house right now!!! This cake is so beautiful!
It is also very delicious and very moist!
My whole family went nuts for it! I noticed that every single person, including Brittany, had seconds! I wish that you could come over and have a piece with me! If you get the opportunity to accept some sour dough, I highly recommend it!


"And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger." John 6.35

Your friend,

Sharon