Friendship bread

A couple of weeks ago my friend gave me a starter to make friendship bread. I had never tried this before so I was excited to see how it turned out.

The Amish Friendship bread is neat in a way that you give away baggies of the starter to make and in 10 days you have enough to make 2 loaves and ingredients to share with 3 or 4 of your friends (depending on if you keep one for yourself). Each day you leave the baggie on the counter and most days you just mush the bag. One day out of the 10 you add some flour, milk and sugar. For the most part it is very easy to make and it uses ingredients that you most likely have in your house already. So for the first 10 days I did what it said each day excited to finally bake my bread. Finally day 10 came and I was so impressed with the bread! My brother in law was visiting and it was fathers day weekend so it went very quickly. The bread is more like a cake and it is so good. I gave out all my extra baggies except one and began another 10 day journey.

Since I have a lot of friends that will eat the bread but would rather not bake it I decided to just bake a bunch of the bread from all the starters that I had and give them away or freeze them so today was baking day! I really enjoyed as I put each batch together, thinking of who I may give them to while welcoming the house smelling so amazing. So after a couple of hours of baking I have 6 loaves of this wonderful Amish friendship bread ready to share with those that I love...

Amish Friendship Bread... The gift that keeps on giving...