In my excitement for the next "1810 Yoga" I decided to make some Amish Friendship Bread. It was very popular "Up North" where there was actually a significant Amish population. One particular memory stands out as we had stopped off at a McDonald's on the way to my Grandmother's house in Mid-Michigan. As we pulled around the curve of the drive-through, there was a peculiar sight. Alongside a row of cars was a parked Amish horse and buggy! Apparently even the Amish can't resist the devilish temptations of Ronald McDonald.
Anyway, if you don't know already what friendship bread is, the easiest way to sum it all up is that it's a non-vegan, gluten containing, but very tasty sweet and edible chain letter. Because it contains yeast, the batter grows/ferments over the ten day period that you have it, resulting in enough dough for you to bake bread with, plus two batches leftover. Then you give the leftover "starter" dough to friends for them to let grow for ten days and the process continues.
So with ten days until the event, this is what the batter looked like on day one:
The hardest part is deciding what bread you're going to bake it into once you have the starter. I think I'm going to go with this recipe. :)
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