April 24, 2008
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I’m sorry this is last minute, but I was working on Amish Friendship Bread. This is ten days in the making.
The first few days you knead one cup of batter, twice a day. This is easy as the batter is enclosed in a ziploc baggie. You just squeeze it for a few minutes.
On the 6th day, you add sugar flour and milk. And knead. Repeat the kneading until day ten. The bag blows up, and you release as much air as possible every time.
On day ten you add more milk, flour and sugar. Then make four one-cup starter bags. These are meant to be given to friends. Now you add other ingredients to the remaining batter. I chose to make a chocolate Amish Bread.
Then bake.
Then eat. Enjoy!!
Comments (10)
That is a lot of work!
Hah, as a young amish gal I remember mom making this once! It was not chocolate though.
Yummmm you must have the patience of a saint!
@Over_my_coffee_cup - Chocolate was one of the variations. There’s also banana, zucchini, carrot and many others. The Amish ladies around here are very resourceful. : )
I just noticed that my pics I carefully cropped are slightly off center. I’m blaming the xanga picture manager. It CAN’T be me.
I find that very interesting, ten days to make bread, and all those different flavours too, i enjoy making my own bread, mostly indian style naan bread with herbs and spices in the dough,
lol, too much work for me… even for giving away to a friend! lol…
Mmm….I kind of want to try that.
I love breads of about any kind but home made is the very best. This looks and sounds delicious. I can almost smell it cooking. Lovely photos for it too.
I have made this before and it is d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s! I’ve never tried the chocolate variation, it looks particularly scumpdillyicious. A friend of mine told me that you can freeze the starter batter and it still works perfectly when you thaw it out!