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Directions:For Amish Friendship Bread Starter: Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup of the warm water in a glass container. Stir in remaining warm water, milk, flour and sugar. Beat until smooth.
Cover a large glass jar or bowl with a tight fitting lid works best for this. DO NOT REFRIGERATE! The starter requires 10 days for fermentation as follows:
DAYS 1, 2, 3 AND 4:....Stir batter
DAY 5:........................Add 1 cup each milk, flour, sugar and stir
DAYS 6, 7, and 8, 9....Stir batter each day
DAY 10:......................Add 1 cup each flour, sugar, milk: stir.
Put 1 cup of starter in each of three containers or larger zip lock bags.
Give away to friends and keep one. This will begin their Day 1.
Remember, don't use a metal bowl, or metal utensils. The starter is freezable after you have completed the steps above, bagged the starter, and ready to give away to you friends.
Directions after you have been given a bag or starter:
Day 1: Do Nothing.
Day 2: Mush the bag and let the air out
Day 3: Mush the bag and let the air out
Day 4: Mush the bag and let the air out
Day 5: Mush the bag and let the air out
Day 6: Add to the bag 1 Cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Mush the bag and let the air out.
Day 7: Mush the bag and let the air out
Day 8: Mush the bag and let the air out
Day 9: Mush the bag and let the air out
Day 10: Mi and divide started as follows
Pour the entire contents of the bag into a non metal bowl. Add 1 1/2 Cups Flour, 1 1/2 Cups Sugar, and 1 1/2 Cups Milk. Next measure 1 Cup Batter into 4 gallon size zip lock bags.
Keep one bag for yourself and give the other 3 to friends along with a copy of the recipe. You will end up with 5 batches of bread (4 bags and 1 in the bowl to make one batch of bread)
Be certain to tell the recipient which day the bag is given to them. The day you give them their bag of starter is day one for them. If you keep starter for yourself you will be baking every 10 days.
You can freeze some of the starter bags instead of giving them all away Once you remove the bag of starter from the freezer it is ready to be baked into bread (no need to follow the 10 steps to feed the starter.) After you bake the bread, add the remaining starters to the freezer or giveaway to friends. |
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