Recipe - Herman Coffee Cake (Friendship Cake)

HERMAN STARTER
1 cup Flour
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Milk

ADD ON 6TH DAY
One half cup Sugar
1 cup Flour
1 cup Milk

ADD ON 11TH DAY
One half cup Sugar
1 cup Flour
1 cup Milk

CAKE MIX
2 cup Herman
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
2/3 cup Oleo (room temp)
2 cup Flour
One half teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoon Baking powder
1 One half tablespoon Cinnamon
1 cup Raisins
One half cup Chopped walnuts

TOPPING 1
Three fourths cup Brown sugar
1 tablespoon Flour
1 tablespoon Cinnamon
One fourth cup Melted oleo

TOPPING 2
One half tablespoon Oleo
Three fourths cup Brown sugar
One fourth cup Milk

From: esined@inforail.MV.COM (Denise Gaunt)

Date: 29 Aug 1995 14:49:04 0500
Herman Coffee Cake (or the 16 day friendship bread).

If you don't have a starter, it is made by stirring 1 cup of flour, 1 cup
of sugar and 1 cup of milk into a non metallic container. Let mixture sit
for five days stirring once each day.

On the 6th day feed Herman with: One half cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 cup milk.

Stir once a day for five more days. On the eleventh day, feed Herman again:
One half cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 cup milk.

Stir once a day for five more days. On the sixteenth day, you have five
cups of Herman. Use 2 cups for baking, keep 1 cup to restart and give 1 cup
each to two friends. (Or make two large loaves and keep the one cup for
yourself to restart.) To restart, I usually add 1 cup of each (sugar, flour
and milk) to the starter and do the 16 day process all over again. When the
process is over, you will have 6 cups of starter. If you do the 11 day
process to the starter adding One half cup of sugar each along with the rest of
the process, then you may want to add the toppings to give it the
sweetsourdough taste that you want.

Prepare to bake. Mix all cake ingredients. Pour into greased 9x13 pan or
use 2 7+One fourth x 7+One fourth pans for freezing.

Topping #1: Mix and sprinkle on unbaked cake mix.

Bake 60 minutes for large loaf pan or 25 to 30 minutes for smaller loafs at
350 degrees F.

Topping #2: Mix and bring to boil. Drizzle topping on hot cake. Cool and
cover eat or freeze. If reheating after freezing, put foil on top.

(The two separate toppings are optional. I make the loaves without the
toppings and the cakes still taste excellent to me. Of course I always
follow the 16 day process. Without the toppings, I sometimes put cream
cheese on my slices; it brings out more of the sweet/sourdough taste.)
Enjoy.

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