Friendship Bread: Take 2

So, this is my second adventure with the friendship bread starter. See this post for info on the starter or this one for adventure 1.

The first time I made a sweet version of the bread, because all of the recipes seem to be for sweet versions. Mine was chocolate. I thought it was weird. I did not feel comfortable with the sweetness mixed with the yeast-y taste. It was not my thing. So I thought I'd turn my next starter into a savory version with ham and cheese.
Assuming you have a starter, here is the recipe below for directions to follow.

If anyone wants a starter, I have 3 that I popped in the freezer last night. Email me if you want one and I'll mail it to you (provided you don't live out of the country). Email myrtle918@yahoo.com.


Day 10: Follow the directions below:

Pour the entire bag into a nonmetal bowl.
Add 1 1/2 cup flour, 1 1/2 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cup milk.
Measure out 4 separate batters of 1 cup each into 4 1-gallon Ziploc bags.
Keep one of the bags fr yourself, and give the other bags to 3 friendship along with the recipe.
REMEMBER: If you keep a starter for yourself, you will be baking in 10 days. The bread is very good and makes a great gift. Only the Amish know how to make a starter, so if you give all the bags away, you will have to wait for someone to give you a starter back.

Should this recipe not be passed onto a friend on the first day, make sure to tell them which day it is when you present it to them.
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Garlic, Parmesan and Ham Savory Bread

3 eggs
1 stick of melted butter
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 cups flour
1 cup shredded parmesan cheese (and some for sprinkling on the top-optional)
1 clove garlic, minced
3/4 cup chopped ham

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Grease 2 loaf pans (I used one big loaf pan).
Mix up your ingredients along with your starter and pour in your pan(s).
Bake for one hour and 15 minutes or until the bread loosens evenly from the sides and a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.

Recipe adapted from: http://p-art-y.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-version-of-amish-friendship-bread.html

This turned out pretty yummy. Kind of tastes like beer bread, with yeasty and sort of sweet undertones and a dense crumb.

I tried to get a good picture of a slice, but it wasn't happening. You can get the idea from this blurry pic, I think:



The bread is good on its own, but I had mine topped with an over easy egg for breakfast. Holy yum, it was good!

Friendship Tastes Like Cake

Weird title, huh? Well it is finally day 10 for my sourdough starter & I decided to use it to make a cake. Refer to my earlier post to see how to make a starter.



Here's the recipe:

Day 10: Follow the directions below:

1.Pour the entire bag into a nonmetal bowl.
2.Add 1 1/2 cup flour, 1 1/2 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cup milk.
3.Measure out 4 separate batters of 1 cup each into 4 1-gallon Ziploc bags.
4.Keep one of the bags for yourself, and give the other bags to 3 friendship along with the recipe.
REMEMBER: If you keep a starter for yourself, you will be baking in 10 days. I'm keeping one starter and thinking of how to adapt it to be a savory bread. More on that later.
Should this recipe not be passed onto a friend on the first day, make sure to tell them which day it is when you present it to them.

Here's my starters ready for sharing:



BAKING INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

2. To the remaining batter in a bowl add the following:

3 eggs (I used 3/4 c Egg Beaters)
1 cup applesauce
1/2 cup milk (I used almond milk)
1 cup sugar ( I ran out of sugar and used Stevia substitute here)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups flour
1-2 boxes instant pudding (I used 2 boxes of chocoalte)

3. Grease 2 large loaf pans-or bundt pan

4. Pour the batter evenly into the pan(s).

5. Bake for one hour or until the bread loosens evenly from the sides and a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.

I made a quick chocolate glaze using the following:

3 tbsp cocoa, sifted
2 tbsp butter
1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
3 tbsp hot water

Enjoy a slice!


Recipe & idea from: http://www.friendshipbreadkitchen.com/amish-friendship-bread

Gonna Be Startin' Somethin'

I finally made my Amish friendship bread starter. It really only took a few minutes. I don't know why I put it off. Well, that's how I do sometimes, put off the easy stuff and do the hard stuff first. Weird.
Well, back to bread. This obviously was inspired by the book I blogged about called Friendship Bread. Basically, you make a sourdough starter, then you have instructions on things to do for 10 days. After those 10 days and task are over, you get to bake a yummy sweet bread and it makes 3 more starters that you pass along to friends and family.

Ok, here's what you need to get started:



Amish Friendship Bread Sourdough Starter
1 package yeast
1/4 cup warm water
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup milk (I used almond milk)

Disolve yeast in warm water and let it sit for 10 minutes. Measure your dry ingredients and dump in bowl. Slowly add your milk and yeast. Cover loosely. This is day one of the 10 day cycle.
This is what mine looked like:



Liquidy and gross. Make sure you don't use metal anything when making this. Don't stir with metal whisk or put in a metal bowl.

Here is what you do over the next 10 days:

Day 1: Do nothing.
Day 2: Mash the bag.
Day 3: Mash the bag.
Day 4: Mash the bag.
Day 5: Mash the bag.
Day 6: Add to the bag: 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk. Mash the bag.
Day 7: Mash the bag.
Day 8: Mash the bag.
Day 9: Mash the bag.
Day 10: Follow the directions below:

1.Pour the entire bag into a nonmetal bowl.
2.Add 1 1/2 cup flour, 1 1/2 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cup milk.
3.Measure out 4 separate batters of 1 cup each into 4 1-gallon Ziploc bags.
4.Keep one of the bags fr yourself, and give the other bags to 3 friends along with the recipe.

Then you make whatever recipe variation you like. You can check them out at http://www.friendshipbreadkitchen.com/amish-friendship-bread. Otherwise I'll be back in 10 days with a recipe (well, I'll probably blog about other things in those 10 days, but 10 days from now I'll make bread).

Hopefully it will look like this:



Recipe & image courtesy of http://www.friendshipbreadkitchen.com/amish-friendship-bread