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- From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
- Subject: Friendship Cake/Bread
- Message-ID: <S19TSJA@taronga.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 93 15:26:15 CDT
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- The Friendship Cake Starter
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- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2/3 cup flour
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- Mix in plastic or glass container with tight lid. Cover, store at
- room temperature for 17 days, stirring once a day.
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- After that, leave undisturbed for 1 day. Stir again daily for 3 days.
- Add 1 cup each of sugar,milk,and flour, then stir the next 4 days.
- Add another cup of each sugar, milk and flour. Mix well.
-
- Give 1 cup each to 2 friends, use 1 cup to make a cake or use as base
- for another batch of starter.
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- The Friendship Cake
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- 1 cup starter
- 2/3 cup oil
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 2 cups chopped (apples,or blueberrie, or any kind of fruit)
- 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 to 1 cup nuts (optional)
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- Combine all ingredients until well mixed.
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- Grease and flour a bundt or loaf pan. Pour batter into pan and
- bake in preheated oven 350 until cake test done 40 to 50 minutes.
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- Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out and continue cooling.
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- FRIENDSHIP BREAD STARTER
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- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 friend with starter
-
- Take flour, milk and salt to visit friend with starter. Add each to
- friends' starter, mixing well. Divide starter in half, returning one
- part to friend, and taking other half home with you. Place your part
- in your starter bowl. You now have a Friendship Bread Starter.
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- AMISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD INSTRUCTIONS
-
- Keep at room temperature Use a glass container. Do not use
- a metal spoon (use a wooden one) Do not refrigerate. Use
- only plain (non-rising) flour.
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- Day 1 The day you get your starter, do nothing
- Day 2 Stir with a wooden spoon
- Day 3 Stir with a wooden spoon
- Day 4 Stir with a wooden spoon
- Day 5 Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk and stir
- Day 6 Stir with a wooden spoon
- Day 7 Stir with a wooden spoon
- Day 8 Stir with a wooden spoon
- Day 9 Stir with a wooden spoon
- Day 10 Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk and stir.
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- Get three glass containers and put one cup of mixture in
- each container, Give a copy of these instructions and a cup
- of starter to 3 friends. To remaining batch add 2/3 cup
- oil, 3 eggs, 1 tsp vanilla, 2 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp
- cinnamon, 1 and 1/4 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda,
- and 1/2 tsp salt. Pour into 2 well greased and sugared loaf
- pans, or 1 bundt pan. Top with anything you like such as,
- sliced apples, dried or candied fruit, nuts, coconut, etc.
- or leave plain Bake at 350 degrees F for 40 to 50 minutes.
- (Check after 30 minutes.) COOL 10 MINUTES BEFORE REMOVING
- FROM PAN. Slice and serve.
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- AMISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD (Original Starter Recipe)
- Linda DiSanto, Austin, Texas
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- 1 package active dry yeast 2 1/2 cups warm water 2 cups sifted flour
- 1 Tbsp sugar
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- Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup of the warm water in a deep glass
- or plastic container. Stir in remaining warm water, flour
- and sugar. Beat until smooth. Cover with loose fitting
- cover. DO NOT REFRIGERATE! The starter requires 10 days for
- fermentation as follows:
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- DAYS 1, 2, 3 and 4: Stir batter
- DAY 5: Add 1 cup each milk, flour, sugar and stir
- DAYS 6, 7, and 8: Stir batter each day
- DAY 10: Add 1 cup each flour, sugar, milk; stir.
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- The batter is ready to use.
-
- This makes 3 cups batter to use in the recipes. If you want
- to you may pout 1 cup batter each into 3 containers and give
- 1 or 2 away.
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- Save 1 cup to begin process all over again OR you can use
- all 3 cups batter for the recipes at 1 time and when you
- want to bake these again just start the starter again.
-
-
- Title: FRIENDSHIP FRUITCAKE
- Servings: 20
-
- 1 ea 2-Layer box yellow cake mix with pudding in the mix (18.5 to
- 28oz size)
- 1/3 C Vegetable oil
- 4 Eggs
- 1 3/4 C Fruit from starter (See note)
- 1 C Chopped pecans
- Confectioners sugar (if desired)
- Cream cheese frosting (if desired) from your favorite recipe
-
- Line the bottom of a springform angel food cake pan with waxed paper,
- grease well, then flour.
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- In large mixing bowl of electric mixer, combine dry cake mix and oil.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well. Add fruit; mix well. Fold
- in nuts. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake in a pre-heated 350-
- degree oven 40 minutes, then reduce heat to 300 degrees and bake 35 to
- 40 minutes more, or until cake tests done.
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- Shake pan to loosen cake from sides and let sit 10 minutes. Lift the
- center of the pan out and turn cake onto cake plate. Remove waxed
- paper. Turn cake right-side up before serving. Sprinkle with
- confectioners sugar if desired, or top with cream cheese frosting. This
- cake tastes better when cold.
-
- NOTE: You will use from 1 1/2 to 2 cups drained fruit per cake.
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- STARTER FOR FRIENDSHIP FRUITCAKE
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- 3/4 C Canned sliced peaches with syrup
- 3/4 C canned pineapple chunks with syrup
- 4 oz Red maraschino cherries, drained, halved
- 1 1/2 C Granulated sugar
- 1 ea Active dry yeast package
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- For Later Addition:
- 1/2 C Canned sliced peaches with syrup
- 1/2 C Canned pineapple chunks with syrup
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- To Replenish Starter:
- DAY 1:
- 1 1/2 C Starter juice
- 2 1/2 C Granulated sugar
- 2 lb Can sliced peaches with syrup
- DAY 10:
- 2 1/2 C Granulated sugar
- 2 lb Can pineapple chunks with juice or 1 1-lb can pineapple chunks
- and 1 1-lb can fruit cocktail
- DAY 20:
- 2 1/2 C Granulated sugar
- 2 ea (4-oz) jars maraschino cherries, drained and halved (You can
- use 1 jar of red and one jar of green for color, or use 1 10-oz
- jar).
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- In a 1-gallon glass jar with wide mouth and lid, combine the
- peaches, pineapple, maraschino cherries, sugar and yeast (make sure the
- yeast is well mixed with syrup). Stir two times the first day. Stir
- once a day afterwards. Do not refrigerate this mixture. Keep loosely
- covered.
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- Two weeks after starting the starter, add 1/2 cup peaches and 1/2 cup
- pineapple with syrup.
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- Wait several days, stirring daily, then drain 2 cups of mixed fruit
- and use to make cake as directed in the cake recipe (see recipe above).
- Reserve 1 1/2 cups starter juice and leave in glass gallon jar. Count
- this as Day One, and begin the process for renewing starter and making
- cake.
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- DAY 1: To reserved 1 1/2 cups starter juice (or to starter juice given
- you by a friend), add 2 1/2 cups sugar and a 2-lb can of peaches with
- syrup. Stir daily. Keep loosely covered. Do not refrigerate.
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- DAY 10: Add 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar and pineapple chunks with
- juice. Stir daily. Keep loosely covered. Do not refrigerate.
-
- DAY 20: Add 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar and drained and halved
- maraschino cherries. Stir daily. Keep loosely covered. Do not
- refrigerate.
-
- DAY 30: Drain fruit, reserving 1 1/2 cups juice for renewing starter.
- Use drained fruit to make 3 cakes (see recipe), give excess starter
- juice to friends, and start a new batch of fruit (repeat aforementioned
- process).
-
- NOTE: At the end of 30 days, you will have enough excess starter
- juice to give to about four friends. Be sure to keep enough juice (1
- 1/2 cups) for your own starter. At the end of 30 days, there will be
- enough fruit to use 1 3/4 cups fruit in each cake, which makes the cake
- better and doesn't waste the fruit. The cakes can be frozen. It is not
- necessary to bake all three cakes the same day, but stir the remaining
- fruit mixture every day until it is used (this fruit mixture can be
- refrigerated until used). The drained fruit can be frozen until you are
- ready to bake the cakes.
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- Amish Friendship Bread Starter and Feeder.
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- 1 package active dry yeast
- 1/4 cup warm water 110 degrees
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1cup warm milk
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- Starter Food (every 5 days)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1cup milk
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- In a small bowl, soften yeast in water for 10 minutes.
- Stir well.
- In a 2- quart bowl, combine flour and sugar. Mix thor-
- oughly or the flour will lump when the milk is added. Slowly
- stir in warm milk and softened yeast mixture. Cover loosely
- and let stand at room temperature until bubbly. Refigerate.
- Consider this day 1 of the 10 day cycle.
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- Day2 through 4: Stir with a spoon (any kind)
- Day 5 To feed, blend flour and sugar in a small
- bowl; slowly mix in milk with a spoon,whisk or hand mixer.
- Stir mixture into starter. Return to refrigerator.
- Day 6 through 9: Stir
- Day 10 ( which becomes Day 1 for the next series)
- Feed again.
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- Note: Consider the 10-day cycle a guide; it does not have
- to be followed exactly. If you need more starter, feed it
- more often. The starter is a yeast culture and will grow
- when fed. To hasten growth, leave starter at room temp
- for several hours.
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- After feeding the starter.
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- Choose from among the following.
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- Return starter to refrigerator.
-
- Remove what you need for baking and leave it at room
- temperature until very bubbly. Return remainder to refrig-
- erator and continue to follow the 10-day cycle. If yoy are
- getting to much, cut the "food" in half on one feeding.
- Don't let starter drop below 1 cup, because rejuvenating
- it to usable amounts takes several days.
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- Measure out 1 cup lots to give to friends or put in the
- freezer.
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- Frozen starter takes at least 3 hours at room temperature
- to thaw and come to life.
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