I've never worked with bread starter before, but this one's low-maintenance and totally not scary. All you do is give it an occasional stir, and feed it some flour, sugar and milk halfway through the 10-day fermentation process. On the tenth day, you bake. Oh, and you also end up with four more batches of starter.
Being exceptionally generous, I'm willing to share my starter. Anyone interested? Oh, please, tell me you are. I feel guilty tossing perfectly good starter, but I can't possibly tend to four batches of bread.
If you're in the Milwaukee area and you'd like some starter, e-mail me at yulinkacooks@yahoo.com or leave a comment.
Oh, and here's the recipe for the breakfast bread itself:
Heat the oven to 325. Add the following to the starter, mixing after each addition: 3 eggs, 1/2 cup milk, 2 tsp. cinnamon, 1 cup oil, 2 cups flour [I added just 1 by mistake, but my bread came out fine], 1 cup sugar, 1/2 tsp. vanilla, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 large or 2 small packages instant pudding mix [I bet you can leave this out with no ill effect], 1.5 tsp baking powder. You can also add raisins, nuts, etc.
Grease two loaf pans [I used one 10-inch, round cake pan]. In a bowl, mix an additional 1/4 cup sugar and 1.5 tsp. cinnamon. Dust the greased pans with 1/2 of mixture. Pour the batter evenly into the pans. Sprinkle the remaining cinnamon/sugar mixture on top. Bake 45 to 60 minutes.
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I would love some, but I am in Madison :(
Came to your blog from The Hungarian Girl & like your writing style & the variety. Bookmarking it and will be back!
Cheers!
Bala.
Aha -- I wonder if this is the same as the "friendship" bread that circulated in the 1980's. My mom had some of that and she made all sorts of things with it.
I'm going to pass on the starter, since my sourdough keeps me busy enough. But, have fun! Maybe you can get a whole bunch of Milwaukee bloggers cooking with Amish bread!
Oh, but the pudding is the best part! You can add lemon pudding and stir in some blueberries; you can add chocolate pudding and stir in orange zest or toffee bits; you can add pistachio pudding and stir in dried cranberries. The possibilities are endless...and since the starter is endless too, this is a great opportunity to try them all :D
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