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- I'm making Amish Friendship Starter with my existing sourdough starter
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🧝🏻♀️ Speak Mellon and enter
blueberry lemon !!
@@Jeanelleats you could go with savory instead of sweet, like pork flavor or smth
Sweet chili
Cherry and chili
Something sweet and spicy 🔥
we have a really really similar recipe, but it's for apple cake - i had no idea it was an amish recipe idea, but it makes sense, given the origins of the amish! it's called german friendship cake, and it has the exact same steps of feeding, leaving it to rest, stirring, etc. - we found that 1½ cooking apples (granny smiths typically) was the exact right amount; 2 is too wet, 1 is too dry.
Do you hace any recipe? I'd love to try it
whoa cool! if i use apples i'll be sure to keep this in mind!
I used to make this religiously when my kids were small! We had it once or twice a week. I would love to find the recipe and make it. It's been probably 20 years
Ah, my cousin made this with his class in school. They called the starter Herman
I always heard it called Apple cake, too!
This stuff multiplies like crazy. My mom got one of these when I was a kid and I remember being so sick of it after awhile
Sick of bread?
@@jhandle900Bread is my weakness 😂
I just found a bakery and their bread tastes like my Grandmother's freshly baked bread. I bought 2 loaves of white bread and a package of 8 hamburger buns for $16! The bread is worth every penny IMO. I'm going to get back to baking my own bread again but butter now is $8.00 on sale!
@@jhandle900Some people just don't care for it.
I like it as an occasional treat, but too much bread is horrible. I cant keep starter on hand because it'll get out of control and i'll be sick of it by the second loaf; it'll just sit in my fridge starving because I'm not onboard to keep tending it.
I realized my German roots lie in my food tastes- I love red meats, bread & butter, mashed potatoes and French fries. I’d be happy if I had those meals everyday but know that would be war in my stomach 😂😂
@@Your-Least-Favorite-StrangerI think you could dehydrate it and use it as needed
Funny that the Amish kept the tradition alive even after leaving Germany. Over here we call it Hermann and this is a super common thing in primary school. 🥰
It is? Never heard of it, maybe not all across Germany.
Yes it is. Even over the border we know what herman is :)
I remember making this in elementary or something
Stimmt. Meine Oma hat mir immer gezeigt wie man Hermann füttert 😂
i know Hermann 🇩🇪
love the LOTR reference
the "a day may come..." speech always gives me shivers
@@Jeanelleats 20 years later and it still gives me goosebumps!
@@LuisMartinez-jk3yo20 years later and I still start to cry 😂
LOTR?
@@Marichika24lord of the rings
A couple of decades ago, making Amish Friendship bread became the rage at my work (doc in the ER), but soon we all had a starter, and no one we could pass it to!
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100%
I remember my mom doing this with my aunt when I was a kid and then I did this as a teen as well as several times again over the years as I got older, especially while I was active duty. We were always sharing our starters and bringing in fresh baked bread.
aww how cute!
@@Jeanelleatsplease share steps in making bread starter when you dont have a Starter. Would appreciate your kind help. ❤
@@camdi8131/2 cup unbleached unbromated all purpose flour. 1/2 cup water (not chlorinated tap water).
Mix water & flour in a clean glass or ceramic jar. Cover or close with a lid. Mark the top of the mixture on the outside of the jar (we use a rubber band or piece of tape).
Let sit on the counter 24-48 hours at room temp. You'll see bubbles or you'll notice the mixture move above the original mark.
After the first day or 2, remove half of the mix & add another1/2 cup of flour and 1/2 cup of water & stir. (We make pancakes with the discard or you could dump it/compost it)
Repeat every day or 2 for a week. It should be bubbly and not too wet or dry. If the sourdough seems a little sluggish you can add a pinch of sugar.
Discard and start over if there is any color such as pink, red, blue or green (mold).
When our kitchen is hot (almost every summer) we put the jar in the fridge. Your mileage may vary.
What is it? T
@@ayeshanoor2182 it’s something you use for making sourdough bread. ☺️ It’s called a sourdough starter.
My aunt makes this bread almost every year for Christmas. It multiplies so much she just hands them out as part of our gifts and we always look forward to it 😍
WOW 🥹 thats such a sweet and fun tradition.
In germany we have "Hermann" it's not a sweet dough though but you pass it on to others, too like a chain letter
We have Herman in the Netherlands too!
He's slowly taking over the world :]
@@fableagainOMG🤯🤣
Gregor's Mom?
I did not get it: you put just flour, milk and sugar or u need some starter (what starter? Living yeast?)
The lil guy is called Hermann in german (peak boomer name), works the same, and you also have to give people instructions (Hermann-Brief, tranls. Hermann-Letter) and soon enough, everybody who never wanted one has one
Thats the name in sweden to
Not a boomer name, but a feneration or two earlier...
Yup, I remember Hermann from when I grew up in Germany....
We had these in Sweden too but thankfully parents asked the other parents before dumping the Hermann on others. Usually they just sent out a mass letter to all the parents asking who wants a Hermann.
We call it Herman inthe Netherlands as well, but we made cake from him
I was gifted a starter of this as a child. It was delicious as regular or cinnamon bread, or as a peach cobbler crust. Of course, as a child I had no one to give the extra to, so I started getting overloaded with the stuff until one day the bag burst and made a giant mess. I was sort of glad to be out if the breadmaking loop at that point lol
You could've just dissolved the excess with water and tossed it in the toilet.
@@feuerling At the time, I didn't want to be wasteful lol
You can freeze them. 😊 Bag them up on day 10 and freeze immediately. When you want bread, pull it out and let sit for a few hours and then bake. When you get to the last one, use it to do the 10 day process to make more an freeze them.
Omg I haven’t heard anyone talk about friendship bread in forever. This was my childhood 🥹❤️
I love how u keep track of the days on the tape. I’m gonna try that. I’ve been wanting to make sourdough starter for bread.
I would use stick figures not actually writing the numbers. I, II, III, IIII, etc. Don't know how to do five on the phone. That way you are just adding sticks. Not rewriting every day.
@@jamesspalten5977 oh I could see that working well. I may try that. Can’t envision how u make the stock figures tho? Maybe I could use toothpicks or st haha
@@jules3048 they're refering to "tally marks." If you look up that term, you'll see what they mean. They're just marked quickly with a pen, pencil, or marker.
@@sheenajae tnx. Is that what was meant when the person said stick figures do u think?
@@jules3048 yup.
I won’t lie…this really does explain why the bread situation blew up during the pandemic. I say that with respect!
I’m a nurse so my life changed a little differently.
But wow! It’s amazing that people really got into the bread!
It looks awesome! And it looks like something if I have 5 mins, I could check on before or after work.
All those empty ERs and Tik Tok trends must’ve been hard to keep up with.
@@KaiLucasZachary Not sure if this sarcasm but during lockdown, ERs were NEVER empty. We had to develop ways to separate possibly infected from not and other mechanisms for safety. If all you thought was 'tiktok', I'm glad you clearly had fun in lockdown, rather than trying to keep patients alive, turning away relatives from ICU so they couldn't see their loved ones - not even to say goodbye.
@@sandrandirika1068 Thank you! Had the exact same thought. It was a nightmare I haven’t forgotten nor will I ever forget. So many things have changed because of it in the medical world. I’ve been a nurse for 20 years and it’s just crazy all the things that are different. A month ago I spent over 2 hours in our negative pressure room in the recovery room because we were already so full of Covid positive patients and they had to find a room for mine who had surgery and needed a room after. So I sat in that room with her for 2 hours because I couldn’t go anywhere else. It’s not what it was in 2020…but it’s still around. There are still moments when the hospital is full and we have no rooms. People just don’t know.
I feel for you. I'm currently a hospital lab tech and it's already jarring when we get called to cancel a test because the patient expired. I can't imagine how much worse it is to be there with the patient in person, seeing them decline, and knowing they're past the point of help...
@@raerohan4241 It’s hard. 20 years of nursing and it’s still hard. But if it stops becoming hard then it’s time for me to exit the field. That’s my personal feelings on it.
I am no different than anyone else. I think we all have our own hard moments and recently I realized that I need to chat about it all. So I told my therapist we need to open the can of worms I’ve kept shut for 4 years and dive in. Hope it helps. My love goes out to all who have worked in this field. It’s hard as a lab tech to know the reason you aren’t going to get labs and I give you credit for having the heart to feel that sadness and to be willing to share with us. Thank you for doing that. Thank you for what you do as a lab tech. Your job is important! 💕
My nurse mom used to get this passed around from time to time from her shift friends. I remembering watch this thing bubble away and the smell was so strong as a kid! They added fruit and stuff - thanks for the memories ❤
the elvish is so cute lol
My grandma did friendship breads and then we all got together to eat them together too, so many different kinds ❤ great memories ❤ dessert bread, savory bread, etc. all better than the next
Those sounds when mixing away the air pockets are immaculate 🤌
Amish friendship bread went around the office i worked in for so many years ❤. So good 🎉
That’s beautiful to share with your friends Thank you For sharing 💜✨😇
🥰 i'm glad they enjoy it!
NO BUT WHEN I FIRST STARTED MAKING MY STARTER IT UNLOCKED A CORE MEMORY OF HOW THE FRIENDSHIP BREAD SMELLED EVERY DAY WHEN I WOULD LET THE AIR OUT AND STIR IT!!!! I remember having this huge realization that it was the same basic concept so it's so interesting seeing someone else talk about this! lol
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This was popular when I was in elementry school! It was known as Hermann dough here in Germany :)
You can actually mix sourdough culture with kefir culture and feed it milk and flour. It keeps well and bakes wonderfully.
Could you elaborate, please?
Thank you 💚
Yup. Its so good. A sister started it at my congregation an pass it along. Everyone made it differently. And all the recipes was shared and loved. ❤
We used to do it in High School and it's such a wholesome thing to do, we called it simply Friendship or Peace Bread
The recipe my mom used to make with Amish Friendship Bread was a cinnamon flavor. I wonder if it was similar to zucchini bread without the zucchini. I could almost taste that bread in my mind when you were showing the starter working. That must’ve been at least 35 years ago!
My grandma made it too. I loved that cinnamon flavor. 😊
I still have the recipe in her handwriting.
When I look at the thumbnail for this video, and even watch this video, I keep thinking that it's a smoothie or blended overnight oats and not a bread starter. LOL 😂
This is what I've been wanting to find forever! Thanks for sharing online too.
🥰🥰🥰 I am SO PLEASED that so many of us ❤️share the same experience❤️ over the past 40+ years! Reading the comments WARMS MY HEART!
I have 4 sourdoughs and 2 Hermann. Sourdough: wheat, wheat/rye 50/50, rye and rye with beer instead of water. And the Hermann: a normal one and one with beet syrup (similar to molasses) instead of sugar. The Hermann with syrup has a slightly stronger taste.
I will try waffle dough with Hermann tomorrow.
Wow! 😮 Very impressive! ❤
@@mzansime thanks a lot. I have them nearly a year now (The beer sourdough 6 months) and started them myself. I hope they get really old and tasty. :)
@@illusion088 Absolutely! Wishing you all the best with them and your baking. ✨
Ooh, I like the sounds of this one. 😯🤤
What do you use the rye/beer sourdough for? Bread, I assume. Anything else?
Oh I remember this! we just call it Hermann in Germany
What is the origin of the name? Is it named after a person?
@@pinkeangst It's not entirely sure where the name comes from, but we basicially call it a pet, so i guess it stems from Hermann just being a common name at the time the bread first got its name (~ 1970 according to Wikipedia) and you just gave your bread pet a common name, because it's kind of funny?
@@anni1961 Thanks for the explanation! I guess it’s like the name Joe or Bob in the English language 🙂
When I was a kid, we would make Amish Friendship bread starters using pudding packets. Chocolate was my favorite to use 😋 wish I remembered the recipe lol
The pudding packet bread from this recipe was SO GOOD!
@@imallierambles
Where do we find the chocolate pudding packet please. I've never heard of it. Thank you
Go to Friendship Bread Kitchen.
You have to get the starter recipe first. (They have it) The one that has yeast. That gets it going. After that, it will just be milk, sugar, and flour and the starter you have.
Also, if you don't want to get overwhelmed with tons of bags of it, when you get to day 10, you bag it into new bags(1cup). Freeze them! Then, when you want bread, pull one out and let sit for a few hours and use it. (Makes 2 loaves)
When you get to your last bag, use it to do the 10 day process again to make more and then freeze them.
This way, you always have bread when you want it, without all the overwhelming bags of starter and finding ppl to give them too. 😅😊😂
@@EgoBrain1 awesome idea! The solution is so simple when you know how!! :)
My partner told me about a friend he has that has bread from the late 1800s, its fantastic how long sourdough starter can last. Its like a pet you can keep in the freezer!
Wow that’s fascinating! Sorry if this is a dumb question, but can a starter go bad? If so, how? Or what preserves it and prevents it from going bad 🤔
@@PieceOfIslam Starter can go bad, if stored in too much heat, stopped feeding or compromising it with herbs, dust, hair, etc. in the starter.
Just freeze part of your starter if the main starter goes bad or you just have more dough starter than needed
The Lord of The Ring references 😮
looking for this comment 😂
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This bread is SO GOOD my Mama has been making this for years, we are actually doing a starter at the moment.
All the food you make looks delicious
Omg my sister gave me some with instructions and I was making bread non stop and I would just give it away. It was sooo good! To the point that people started to ask me if I was going to be mailing some soon cause they wanted some 😂 the instructions came with a recipe and the bread was a sweet bread with even more sugar. It was honestly so so good. I need to find this recipe again.
I’ve been making Amish Friendship bread for decades! It’s the most delicious, moist, dense, cakes bread you can imagine! I’ve made it as gifts for literally everyone I know and I’ve never seen/heard of anyone who doesn’t love it!❤️
You made it sound great, I'm keen to make it!
I remember you saying some time ago that you'd never do sourdough since it's a hassle, but here we are😅 I knew you'd get hooked up 😆 it's actually pretty easy once you get the hang of it...I never use yeast in any baked goods, just sourdough, and it's yummy )) welcome to the club😄
There is a traditional cake recipe that goes with the starter. You give yoir friends a little instruction poem that ends with the recipe. My SIL and I used to make it all the time. The cake is like a fruitcake with dried fruit and if you want some nuts. Just don't use peanuts. That was not the greatest we did 🫢 but everything else we tried worked great. I cad see if I can find the recipe if anyone wants let me know. It's actually great for the holiday season coming up. Just put a shot or two of brandy over it while cooling and then wrap in a brandy soaked cloth keeping the cloth moist not drenched. After a few weeks it's ready. We liked it after a
Month. Anyways let me know if anyone wants the cake recipe. 😊
Thanks for the memories Janelle. ❤
This sounds like so much fun! I hope others will see your comment and be interested in the recipe too (as I am!)!! ❤
I'm interested.... My extended family going through rough times, death, disease, accidents and what not. I think it would be good to practice your bread, just to be better by the time Christmas arrive,, the note with a prayer or good wishes is sure to lift some spirits,, we really need a lift,,, myself waiting to have a second surgery after a car accident. What do I need to do to get your blessed bread recipe ?? Pretty please 🤭
Yes, I’d appreciate the recipe too.
Thanks, Kathy 😊
Yes! Please!!
me too please😊
Gotta love the tolken reference
Got an amish friendship starter 23 years ago, i remember how delicious the baked loaves were, we added chocolate chips. After afew months I failed to keep it alive though.
Love Amish Friendship Bread ❤
I remember this being a big thing in the 1990’s with me and my friends. We were always making Amish Friendship Bread to the point all our families just groaned when they smelled it baking. 😂
I went on a binge of making this for a few months years ago! Soooo many options! Chocolate, peanut butter, chocolate and peanut butter, you can add chips of either or both. Banana, you can add nuts. If you add white chocolate chips know that it will add a little bit of texture, but you’ll never see them. It’s been ages I know I must have done others but those were the stand outs. Also, you can start from scratch with a starter recipe and immediately bake with that. The 2 weeks is only to get the second loaf batter.
Edited for spelling
I need a starter or a starter recipe!
@@LadyBirch I did too! If you look up several comments in a different thread, you will see that one is listed. It is evidently a German version without sugar, Because only wants to do I see it, mentioning Sugar as in if it seems to stop growing add a pinch of sugar. Whereas the ones I used so much in the 90s and early 2000s included a lot of sugar, and we fed it more frequently with flour and sugar.
We sometimes mixed a box of instant pudding mix, available in many different flavors; adding it into the batter with other additions, such as chips, dried fruits, nuts, or shredded vegetables, like zucchini, or carrots right before we baked a batch, and, depending on the things we added, this determined what we called it in the end. These make very excellent muffins!!
We often added blueberries, and cranberries, and quite a bit of vanilla on baking day with vanilla pudding to get Red white and blue muffins. Or cinnamon and butter toasted pecans with vanilla pudding mix; sometimes we added instant chocolate pudding, mix, and then added Chocolate chips and butter, sautéed pecans, or peanut chunks or swirls of warmed up peanut butter, or peanut chips; a few times we made it more tropical with the flesh of chopped limes, a box of lime Jell-O, chopped fresh pineapple, or a can of crushed pineapple, and some shredded coconut. Once, or twice we made lemon, blueberry muffins, using a box of instant, Jell-O, lemon, and either dried or fresh blueberries. Poppy seeds can be added if you wish. Another thing we tried, is the flesh of oranges, along with a box of instant orange jello and cranberries- this was very good. We also made pumpkin and shredded carrot versions, adding spices, nuts, shredded apples, or crushed pineapple. We had so much fun coming up with all our variations and everyone had a favorite! They make great muffins, and about half the time we cook them in a Bundt cake pan. Then we would let it cool a bit and turn it out on a plate, and drizzle over the top with powdered sugar-based icing.
Sometimes we did cook it in a loaf pan, and then it was normally pumpkin spice pecan bread, shredded zucchini walnut bread, Shredded apple walnut bread, banana nut bread, apple & pear spice bread, etc.
One year we made a kind of fruit cake in a pan, with nuts and dried fruits, rather than those nasty tasting candied things. We used our favorite dried fruits, such as chopped apricots, hopped dried pears, Dried cherries, dried golden raisins, dried plums, blueberries, cranberries, etc. The first year we made them in loaf pans, the second year we baked them in Bundt cake pans with the powdered sugar icing drizzled over the top once it was turned out onto a plate. Beautiful and very tasty!
One of my niece’s favorites is the shredded carrot/apple/walnut spice muffins. We use half oat flour and half whole wheat flour for that. But I haven’t been able to make it for many years now, as I lost the recipe when I moved a long distance. I would love to make some for her again!
I would also be very happy to make nonsweet, actual loaves of bread, so I can see this turning out wonderful, in both ways! I always wished for a savory version, and now I’m looking forward to it! Maybe some Garlic Dill Parmegiano Cheese bread - that sounds yummy!
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It’s so good when done right
Yes! My best friend used to make Amish friendship bread all the time. I’ve never made it, because I do not like sourdough bread. I’m not a fan of the sour aftertaste. It’s not bad, if you like sourdough. Love baking regular bread though.
I don’t remember it having a sour taste. But that may be cause I always made mine sweet
you can make sourdough the same day and it wont be sour at all or just a tiny bit if it takes awhile because of weather. it still retains the complex and flavorful aroma and flavor of naturally leavened bread. usually on the second proof ppl will put it somewhere cold like the fridge to develop a sour flavor. you can probably buy a sourdough starter online which states something like low acidity/sourness. also when you feed it the less liquid u use the less sour it will be and more yeast activity it will have. what ppl sometimes do it have their normal starter which is a paste and take some out and feed it with the same amount of flour but about half the water by weight; it will be a very stiff paste or almost dough like. then let it double in about 4-6 hours then use it in their recipe. usually i dont bake my sourdough to be sour, but it taste much better anyways. normal commercial yeast breads taste like plain flour almost compared to sourdough, unless there’s been a long fermentation like with baguettes
my wife makes this. it's delicious and has no sour taste.
I loved Amish Friendship Bread growing up!! After a while we ran out of people to give it to and had to keep it all for ourselves. We always made a cinnamon sugar flavour, sooo good
Hahaha in Germany we call it Hermann 😅 and it's every teenagers mother nightmare because we pass them around all the time ❤
You are so sweet and it would be easier to use ones to tally for the count each day! Nice that you have friends that make bread as well. That’s the one thing in home economics that didn’t work out!
ohh we used to make amish friendship bread in my village. we shared it with our neighbors and teachers and soon everyone made it. we called it "Hermann" tho. no idea why
My mom has been doing this for years!! It is the best thing ever! I always look forward to it
Oh my goodness I remember coming home with friendship bread in school, well the mixture. I also believe & please someone can correct me if I’m wrong we also did Day of the dead bread that was on the same idea of sharing.
In Germany we have something like rhis, we call it "Hermann" and my mom got a bit mad when I brought this home from school one day, because the recipe is a bit crazy with what amounts you get and too how many people you "have" to give it too😂😂 I think we made something sweet, I think like a raisin bread
In Germany we have a similar thing called "Herrmann", it is a cake dough that you constantly "feed" and then split up to bake and give some dough away. My mom HATED it 😂 because everyone did it and she got so sick of it 😅
Ich hätte gerne einen Hermann. Ich fand das toll. Das ist 40 Jahre her.
Ich hätte gerne einen Hermann. Ich fand das toll. Das ist 40 Jahre her.
My friend gave me one of these! It was really fun to pass it along :)
I cannot tell you how much I love you for naming your dough Mellon❣️🧝♂️
My baking loving mom went thru a phase where she made this all the time, and idk if she got it from the actual Amish that live nearby or not. The chocolate is the best, hands down, but every flavor she made was amazing.
I remember a version of this from when I was a kid that we called Herman. If I remember correctly it was cinnamon and apple
I remember one of my classmates in high school gave me a starter for friendship bread. It was so good! I’ve never heard anyone talk about it sense. But I’ve been thinking about it the more I see people’s homemade bread videos.
tally marks woulda been perfect for this application 😂💜
I remember one time my teacher made a cake with milk that had sat in the sun in a bag for like a week and it was really good. I wish I remembered what it was called this brings back the memory
Omg im early. JEANELLE I WANTED TO TELL YOU I SEE UBE IN MY DREAMS BECAUSE I WATCH SO MUCH OF YOUR UBE VIDEOS. I REALLY WANT TO TRY UBE SOMEDAY, ALSO PANDESAL !!!!
Blud likes ube way too much, honestly I don't blame you
Just make normal bread with salt. That's pandesal. Pan:bread;Sal:salt.
hahahah i'm sure one day you will find it an enjoy it!
@@Jeanelleats Thank you so much :')))
I got one a year ago from my neighbor! Then I gave it to my friends, and it was a fun experience, though one friend didn't feed it but instead baked the part I gave her.
In the 80's I lived on Ft Leonard Wood Army post and many of us made and passed around this Amish Friendship bread starter. The difference is you stirred every day and fed it on day 5, continuing to stir it daily until day 10, which you fed it and divided to share with others. If you don't have any takers, use the starters to make the bread for yourself or others. The baked bread can be frozen. My favorite was with cinnamon and diced fresh apples!
Oh, and my instructions said not to store the starter in a metal bowl, stir with metal spoon, nor store airtight.
The recipe that typically comes with the starter is essentially a cinnamon or spice bread recipe.
My mom used to make this when i was a kid. I would help her make the starter and with the baking too. The ladies at the church used to share and pass along the starter. Favorite flavor bread was a cinnamon loaf. Childhood memory unlocked 😊
My cousin has been making this for years for Easter, she always called it Easter bread 🤷♀️ but she always gives us a loaf, and a jar of the starter for us to keep it going and make more of. It is delicious! Probably because of all the sugar 😂
The pastor's wife at my old church tried this after we came back from a trip to Amish country. She shared the starter with us and the bread was so amazing. I have never tasted anything like it. Just try a plan version before getting fancy with changes. It's so delicious.
This was a trend among my friend group when I was in college. Eventually we were all overwhelmed with little starters and then the semester ended
I haven’t heard of Amish friendship bread since I was a little kid! I remember loving it! Thanks for the fun trip down memory lane 🩵
We do this in Sweden too. Well, maybe not that often anymore, but I know my grandpa did it when he was younger (and when my mom was little)
Love it. My children enjoyed it when they were little. I gave out several starters.
That ‘Mellon’ reference came out of nowhere!
AND gave me a whole new smile 😁😁😁😁 ❤
I remember this from the seventies. Can't believe it's still going around.
We have this in Germany as well. There are different types. I had one as a young teen to bake cake with. I had it for nearly a year. In the end every relative, friend and aquaintance had one. In the end I kept one new starter and baked 2 cakes with the rest because nobody wanted a new one 😂
Friendship bread is heavenly
I know this as a (Vatican) bread of happiness - bread as in banana bread, so similar to cake.
Sweet with chocolate, cinnamon, raisins and grated apples, among other things.
I made this years ago. It was so high maintenance, and I ran out of friends needing starter so I eventually gave up. But, I’d love the ratios to recreate it.
I used to have Amish Friendship starter, my favorite was piña colada (pineapple & coconut) yummy!
I love that you named it Mellon!!
I love amish friendship bread, it's delicious!
I love the way you guys talk about dough as if its an alive thing😭💛
It is alive...
In morocco we use this, its very traditional. My mom always made it at home and used it to make bread
I remember my mom getting one of these starters for amish friendship bread when I was a kid, it was really good!
I love desserts and will overindulge in overly sweet things (think a slice of warm, marble cake in a pool of melted chocolate with vanilla sugar). The first time i had a crumbl cookie, i couldn't finish it. It was too sweet. The bite i took i just kept thinking "how much fing sugar is in this thing?" I didn't know the nutrition facts for it at the time, so seeing 800 cals for 1/4 of a cookie doesn't shock me at all. It is probably the only dessert that i actually eat the recommended serving size lmao
There's a cinnamon bread option that seems the most common near me when it's handed around near me. My mother used to make a massive thing of the starter that would be maintained for a big baking thing to hand out to family and friends for a few holidays
My mom has a recipie for that from her childhood in the 90s when it was apparently really popular at least in california
I've done the Amish friendship starter. I don't have enough friends or enough room in my freezer. It is delicious and can make several variations.
Amish friendship bread is awesome.
Ty!!!!!! Omg I was given a starter once and most delicious bread ever!! I never knew the recipe!! I'm so going to share. Ty again!!
That’s so cool that you named the friendship bread using the Sindarin word for friend!
I loved it when I was young. My family would make it a lot!
Straight from my childhood ❤
The Amish friendship bread I used to make, you fed with the fruit of your choice once and let it feed for several days before baking. I don't remember the details, but I gave away as much as I could and froze several loaves and finally just had to let it die because I was overwhelmed.
Mind you, I didn't give away _starter;_ I gave away _bread._ People started crossing to the other side of the street. Not because it was bad; it was very, VERY good. It was just so darn prolific. It's the zucchini of yeast starters.
Friendship bread makes me so happy. I love it so much!
My German grandma used to make this!!soooo good.
Infinite bread glitch!
Ma family did this twenty years ago. It was great. I think it's about time we give it another go around.
My grandmother in law used to do this, I had so many batches in my freezer because I made it so often and ran out of people to gift it to 😂 (I'm really the only avid baker). Unfortunately we had a power outage take out all of our fridge/freezer food and I lost all those starters. GMIL is a snow bird so the few months they're home she's not baking. I should ask for the original recipe though so I can start it again...