Recipe - My Amish Friendship Bread

1 cup Flour
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Milk
One half cup Oil
One half cup Applesauce
One half cup Milk
3 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 cup Flour
1 cup Sugar
1 One half teaspoon Baking powder
2 teaspoon Cinnamon
One half teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Baking soda
1 lg Box instant pudding mix
1 cup Chopped nuts, (optional)

Starter=1 cup flour, 1 cup milk, 1 cup sugar mixed in a large ziploc bag.

Day 1: Do nothing.

Day 25: mush bag 12 times daily.

Day 6: Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup milk. Mush bag, t will be
lumpy.

Day 79: mush bag and let out gas 2 times a day.

Day 10: Pour into LARGE bowl, squezzing out as much batter as possible. Add
1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk. Stir well. Pour four 1 cup starters
into four ziploc bags.

Use what is left (it won't look like enough, it is) and add oil,
applesauce, milk, eggs, and vanilla. Mix well. Add 2 cups flour, 1 cup
sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, pudding mix and nuts
(optional). Mix well. Pour into two large greased and floured or sugared
loaf pans ( or four small loaf pans or one large bundt pan). Bake at 325
degrees for 1 hour.

NOTES : DO NOT USE A METAL SPOON. DO NOT REFRIGERATE. Alternative recipe
ideas. Substitute one cup whole wheat flour for one of last 2 cups of
flour, use all apllesauce ( 1 cup) instead of oil and applesauce, use all
oil (1 cup) instead of oil and applesauce. Substitute raisins, chopped
dried apricots, fresh berries, chocolate chips for nuts. Pudding combos:
Chocolate pudding with:nuts, chocolate chips, or peanut butter chips.
Pistachio pudding with nuts or chocolate chips. Butterscotch pudding with
nuts or butterscotch chips. My Favorite: Vanilla pudding with 1/3 cup
raspberries, 1/3 cup blueberries, 1/3 cup blackberries. You can also vary
the spices (i.e. nutmeg, grated citrus peel, etc.) The starters also feeze
for up to six months. Use Day 1 as defrost day. You cannot hurt this
stuff!!
Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by "Francis X.
Castellano" fxcastel@nps.navy.mil on Mar 6, 1997.