As the Wikipedia article on the recipe suggests, this is basically a chain letter with an ziploc attachment.
The recipe has us "mush the bag" of starter every day and feed it on the sixth day. On the tenth day (today!) we're to feed the starter again, measure out four new ziploc bags of it, and bake the bread with what's left of the starter. Bake we did! We're then to give the recipe and a bag of the starter to four of our friends. That's friendship for you!
It's a pleasant coffee cake. It certainly is not worth the trouble.
But we're each taking two bags of the starter and pieces of the cake to work tomorrow and foisting them upon unsuspecting colleagues. If anybody offers some to you, make up an excuse and pass it up (tell them that you have to wash your hair).
Amish Friendship Bread and bag of starter for the next victim
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I used Google (amish "friendship bread") to find out more. People blog about friendship bread. They exchange recipes. They trouble-shoot. They develop variations (chocolate puddin', coconut, nuts, chocolate chips). I guess it's a way to make friends and create community.
Born to raise barns.
What if you keep the starter too long? Does it grow into a man-eating blob?
I've done that friendship bread starter stuff in the past. It is a little labor intensive to keep it going for so long. I kept it in a covered bowl. It makes good sourdough bread. Try different recipes with your starter... make up a recipe...bring some to us!
The Internet sure does bring together people with common interests. I don't think I'm interested enough in Amish Friendship Bread to devote much time developing new friendships based on it. I'm glad to hear that others are able to help each other with their problems with it.
I believe that if the starter grew too large for its Ziploc bag that it would go to theater showing a bad movie, probably "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," and eat all the fools who are wasting their time watching it.
Bobbers, it's too late to try different recipes with the starter. Jerry and I gave it all to eager coworkers. But then, there's the chance that in ten days it will be coming back to work.
Squidsan and I recall having some. BobBIE, did you give it to us? We kept it in our fridge and kept a-feedin' it. As I recall, we did use it to make bread.
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