i got this amish bread starter bag from a co-worker.... this is the strangest thing i've ever heard. but, i guess i'll be eating bread every 10 days now:

Directions for Amish Bread

 

Do NOT refrigerate!!!  Do NOT use any type of metal spoon or bowl for mixing!

If air gets into the  bag, let it out.  It is normal for the batter to rise, bubble, and ferment

(and even smell).

 

Day 1                     Do nothing (this is the day you receive the batter)

Day 2                     Mush the bag

Day 3                     Mush the bag

Day 4                     Mush the bag

 

Day 5                     Add the following to the bag:

                                1 Cup Flour

                                1 Cup Sugar

                                1 Cup Milk

                                Then mush the bag

 

Day 6                     Mush the bag

Day 7                     Mush the bag

Day 8                     Mush the bag

Day 9                     Mush the bag

 

Day 10                   Mush the bag and do the following:

                                Pour the entire contents of the bag into a non-metal bowl and add:

                                1 ½ Cups of Flour

                                1 ½ Cups of Sugar

                                1 ½ Cups of Milk

                                Stir with a non-metal spoon.  Into 4 one gallon bags, measure 1 cup of batter into each bag.

                                These are starter bags.  Give away 3 with a copy of this recipe and keep 1 bag for yourself.

 

                                Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.  To the remaining batter in the bowl add the following:

                                2 Cups Flour                       3 Eggs                                    ½ Cup Milk

                                1 Cup of Sugar                   2 Tsp Cinnamon                1 Cup of Oil (Or ½ Cup Applesauce)

                                ½ Tsp Salt                            1 ½ Tsp Baking Soda        ½ Tsp Vanilla

                                1 Large box of instant vanilla pudding

 

-Mix together well.  If you use applesauce, it will be a little lumpy.

-Grease 2 Large bread pans, or 3 small ones.  Mix ½ Cup Sugar and 1 ½ Tsp Cinnamon together. 

Dust the bottom of the pans.  Pour the batter in the pans and sprinkle the remaining sugar/cinnamon mixture

on top of the batter.

-Bake 1 hour (maybe a little longer for firmness).  Cool until the bread loosens from the pans evenly. 

Turn onto serving dishes, or wrap w/ plastic wrap.

 

**Variations: You may substitute chocolate or banana pudding for the vanilla pudding.  You can also add chopped nuts, raisins or chocolate chips.

***Note: If you keep a starter for yourself, you will be baking every 10 days.  Only the Amish know how to create a “starter” from scratch,

so if you give them all away, you will have to wait to receive another “starter”.

prayer mtg was good... or shall i say, prayer is good. really brings the spirit back to focus.... focus on God. it's like that song ET was playing today...

Oh heart of mine, why must you stray?
From one so fair you run away
And one more time you have to pay
The heaviness of needless shame

Oh heart of mine, come back home
You've been too long out on your own
And He's been there all along
Watching for you down the road

So come home running
His arms are open wide
His name is Jesus
He understands
He is the answer
You are looking for
So come home running
Just as you are

Oh child of God so dearly loved
And ransomed by the Savior's blood
And called by name, daughter and son
Wrapped in the robe of righteousness

need more prayer! a taste of the heavenlies..