Amish Friendship Bread Starter

Throughout my adult life I've been given Amish Friendship Bread starter several times. Most of the time I make it a few times and then get busy or annoyed and it ends up in the garbage. But I hadn't had any in quite a while and decided to learn to make it for myself. Then I got to burden people with the dreaded starter.

 Most of the time when I got the starter it was in a zip top bag. It would get gooey on the top, and I hated having it sit around on my counter. So I decided when I made it I was going to do it in a commercial food storage container. It made for easier mixing, no gooey mess and no zip top bag always getting in the way. 

Making the starter is pretty easy. 

1 pkg or 2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast 

1/4 cup warm water (105 - 110 degrees)

1 cups flour

1 cups sugar

1 cups milk

Dissolve yeast in water and let it stand for 10 minutes. In a food storage container (not metal), mix flour and sugar. Stir in milk and dissolved yeast. Cover and leave at room temperature. This is day 1. Days 2 - 4 stir with a spoon that isn't metal. Day 5 add 1 cup milk, 1 cup flour, and 1 cup sugar. Mix well.  Days 6 - 9 stir. Day 10 add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Remove 1 cup and set aside to make bread with. Remove another 2 cups divided into 1 cup into food storage containers or the icky zip top bags.  And you will now start over with the 10 day cycle with day 10 also being day 1. 

A blog post will follow with a recipe to make the bread. I also found a website with so many recipes that can be made with the starter.

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