Elly - feeding Herman the German friendship cake
Elly feeding Herman
AMISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD-- MAKING STARTER & BREAD
This delicious, wonderful and versatile bread has been in the community forever. The starter is easy to make, and the bread/cake is tremendously versatile with many options of nuts, coconut, raisins, chocolate or white chocolate chips and even using different pudding flavors or fruits or even zucchini! And you share it! What's better than that? It's what friendship is all about.
AMISH FRIENDSHOP BREAD
STARTER and DAY 1
INGREDIENTS
¼ ounce active dry yeast or 1 package
¼ cup warm water 110° F/45° C
1 cup flour
1 cup milk
INSTRUCTIONS
In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Let stand 10 minutes.
In a 2-quart glass, plastic or ceramic container, combine 1 cup flour. Mix thoroughly with a whisk or fork.
Slowly stir in 1 cup milk and dissolved yeast mixture.
Cover loosely and let stand at room temperature until bubbly. Consider this Day 1 of the 10-day cycle. For the next 10 days handle starter according to the instructions for Amish Friendship Bread
Day 2--- stir (wooden spoon best or use the zip lock bag method. Avoid metal.)
Day 3--- Stir
Day 4--- Stir
Day 5-- Add 1 C flour, 1 C sugar, 1 Cup milk..stir.
Day 6--- Stir
Day 7--Stir
Day 8-- Stir
Day 9-- Add 1 C milk, 1 C flour, 1 C sugar...stir
Day 10-- stir and use.. make the bread/cake! Gift starter to friends .. 1 C starter in a ziplock bag with recipe.
BREAD/CAKE INGREDIENTS
1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
3 eggs
1 cup oil
½ cup milk
1 cup sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
2 cups flour
1 small box vanilla instant pudding
1 cup nuts chopped (optional)
1 cup raisins (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat oven to 325° F (165° C).
In a large mixing bowl, add ingredients as listed.
Grease two large loaf pans.
Dust the greased pans with a mixture of ½ cup sugar and 1½ teaspoons cinnamon.
Pour the batter evenly into loaf or cake pans and sprinkle the remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture on the top.
Bake for one hour or until the bread loosens evenly from the sides and a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.
ENJOY!
NOTES
This recipe is very versatile! Use 1 or 2 boxes of pudding (pudding boosts flavor and moisture, but you can also leave it out or make your own). Add 1 cup of dried fruit, nuts or baking chips of your choice.
Looking to make your Amish Friendship Bread healthier? Swap out ½ cup oil plus ½ cup applesauce or 1 egg plus ¼ cup mashed banana. Reduce sugar to ⅔ cup or replace with ⅔ cup honey.
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Herman German Friendship Cake - MYVIRGINKITCHEN
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Friendship Bread is a type of bread or cake made from a sourdough starter that is often shared in a manner similar to a chain letter. The starter is a substitute for baking yeast and can be used to make many kinds of yeast-based breads, shared with friends, or frozen for future use. The sweet, cake-like Amish Cinnamon Bread is a common bread that is made from this starter; it is a simple, stirred quickbread that includes a substantial amount of sugar and vegetable oil, with a mild cinnamon flavor. It has characteristics of both pound cake and coffee cake. The flavor of the finished product can be altered by omitting cinnamon.
A common cycle is based on the addition of one cup each of sugar, flour, and milk every five days, with bread baked and extra starter shared every tenth day. The ten-day cycle produces five cups of starter, which must be either used to bake bread, given away, or used to start a new cycle. A common suggestion is to bake one loaf of bread, give away three cups of starter, and to save the remaining one for the next cycle.
It is not necessary to wait the canonical ten days before using one cup of starter: a cup of starter can be used as a yeast substitute at any point. However, using starter on earlier days will result in a smaller quantity of starter at the end of the cycle. To avoid running out of starter, it is normal to feed the starter (add milk, sugar, and flour) before removing a cup for use, and most recipes assume that starter is always fed immediately before being removed. A five-day baking cycle feeds the starter every fifth day and uses the resulting mixture on that day to bake one or two loaves of bread (one cup per loaf). The remaining starter is reserved to begin the next five-day fermentation cycle.
Despite common instructions to the contrary, the starter can be frozen for later use, and the cycle begun anew after thawing. The cycle can also be slowed to about half the normal fermentation rate by refrigerating the starter instead of allowing it to ferment at room temperature. Refrigeration is usually recommended if a few days' delay is desired. #barrylewis
???? Regular Kitchen: Herman, Part 1!
This video was called Friendship Kitchen, until i did a search and realised there was already a youtube series called Friendship Kitchen! I've changed the title to avoid confusion!
I got a German friendship cake from my friend Emma, and it became a bit of a project. I will post the link to the second video as soon as I put it up. :)
The music is called Rat-o-Matic and it's from the Space Station Silicon Valley soundtrack, because boy do I love that soundtrack. You can listen to it here:
Friendship Cake aka Herman
FridgeCam this week is all about sharing... Aaaw! Specifically we're sharing cake, which is always a good thing!
You might have heard of Herman before - he's a cake mix that you look after for 9 days before splitting into 4 pieces - you give a piece to 3 friends and then use the 4th piece to bake a cake!
Your friends then go through the same process and give 3 pieces away to their friends and so on and so on and so on... Until we take over the world with cake!!
It's a great experiment and we can't wait to see how far Herman can go! You can get all the instructions and recipes for the cakes and the starter mix here:
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