Amish Friendship Bread

April Fool Day
10 days ago, I was gifted a starter batch of Amish Friendship Bread (not vegan). The name alone is an oxymoron. Really which one of my friends want me to massage dough and release it's explosive fermented contents for 10 days. My Mother, of course. Hubby called it a Baking Chain Letter, where you actually feel guilty if you don't share the 4 starters with four of your closest friends, neighbors... or daughter.

So I "mushed" the bag, as the instructions called for, 5 days then added 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of milk;  and then resumed the mushing another 5 days. It really called for little effort, until day 10.  Sorry Amish, but this is not bread. We call this Spice Cake.  Bread does not require Instant Vanilla Pudding, 3 eggs, 2 more cups of flour, 1 cup of oil another 1/2 cup of milk and cup of sugar, cinnamon that's baked on a bed of cinnamon and sugar all on the 10th day for baking. And if that isn't sweet enough be sure to sprinkle another 1/4 cup of sugar and 1.5tsp of cinnamon on the top.

Here's the recipe closest to the one given to me! Amish Friendship Bread Recipe.

If I would have timed this correctly, I could have made a cream cheese icing and passed it as dessert for Easter Sunday dinner.

The hardest part of the experience, is inflicting my 4 starter batches of Amish Friendship "love" on 4 of my friends. Guess it was Mother's April Fools trick on me!

Spicy Brandt
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