Amish Friendship Bread Pt. 2

Oookay, sorry for the one week delay. Chaos broke out this week in the online world and irl, heh... I'll spare the details. :/

So it figures that the day after I made the last post the recipe disappears. I can't find the paper that it was printed on. So I tracked it down online.

And here we go!

First you "baby" the starter that is residing in the gallon size baggie (see previous post) beginning with Day 1 (the day you make starter is considered Day 1).

Day 1: Squeeze bag several times
Day 2: Squeeze bag several times
Day 3: Squeeze bag several times
Day 4: Squeeze bag several times
Day 5: Squeeze bag several times
Day 6: Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup milk to bag. Squeeze bag until everything is mixed together.
Day 7: Squeeze bag several times
Day 8: Squeeze bag several times
Day 9: Squeeze bag several times
Day 10: Add 1 1/2 cup flour, 1 1/2 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cup milk to starter. Mix together. Remove 1 cup of batter and add to a seperate gallon Ziplock bag. Do this two more times (removing a total of 3 cups, you'll now have 3 bags of starter). Give to friends along with the recipe or keep for yourself (you can freeze the bags). Proceed to making the bread.

*Use of all purpose flour is recommended.
**Do not use metal mixing bowls or utensils! Metal pans are ok to bake in.
***Remove any excess air from starter throughout the 10 day period.

Making the bread!

Ingredients:
3/4 cup Canola oil
3 eggs
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup applesauce
1 large box (5.1 oz) of instant vanilla pudding
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoons vanilla
2 teaspoons cinnamon
(optional: raisins, nuts)

Mix ingredients in a non-metallic bowl with starter using non-metallic utensils. Pour batter into 2 greased bread pans. Bake at 350 (mine was originally 325) degrees for 1 hour.

Optional: Prior to baking, sprinkle a mixture of 2 ts. sugar and 1 ts. cinnamon over the top of the batter.


My personal notes:

Day 6 was our "oops" day. My mother had squeezed the bag that day but nothing was ever added. So due to the misunderstanding, I went about and pretended like the real Day 6 was Day 5 again. The next day became the new Day 6 and I went on following the instructions from there.

Day 10 I only added 1/3 cup of sugar, 1/3 cup flour, and 1/3 cup of milk to avoid having any extra batter than what was actually needed for the two loaves.

Instead of using 3/4 cup of Canola oil, I used 1/2 cup. I read where some people had substituted applesauce (all or parts) for the oil, so I added an additional 1/4 cup of applesauce. This might have been a bad idea because even after re-cooking, my loaves were extremely moist and mushy.

I mixed all of my wet ingredients together and then added the dry ingredients. Not sure if that makes any difference.

As stated before, my instructions said to bake at 325 for 1 hour. That's what I did. Didn't completely bake. Looked online and found all the other recipes stated 350. Put the loaves back in at 350 and baked for 25 minutes. Turned off the oven and left the loaves in while the oven cooled down. And again, the loaves were still pretty moist and mushy.

I was also told that this stuff acts like a laxative. Er, I guess this stuff affects people in different ways because that has not been the case for me, haha.

I believe that is all for now. Have fun and enjoy!