Aaron's Cottage

Amish Friendship Bread: Breakfast-Brunch

Servings: 10

Prep time:2 hours

Ingredients:

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  1 1/2 cups Amish Starter (flour,sugar,milk, 10 day cycle)

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  3 Eggs

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  1/2 cup Milk

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  1/2 cup Oil

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  1/2 cup Applesauce

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  1 cup Honey

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  2 teaspoons Cinnamon

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  1/2 teaspoon Vanilla

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  1 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder

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  1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

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  1/2 teaspoon Salt

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  2 cups Flour

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  1 Large Box Vanilla Instant Pudding

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  1/2 cup Sugar

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  1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon

Step 1:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Pour starter into NON-METAL bowl. Do not use any metal baking or mixing implements throughout the process. Add eggs, milk, oil, sugar, and vanilla. Mix well.

Step 2:

In a separate NON-METAL bowl mix cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt, flour, and pudding. OPTION: Add 1 cup walnuts and 2 cups fresh cranberries.

Step 3:

Mix dry ingredients, optional nuts and berries into wet mixture. Mix thoroughly.

Step 4:

Grease 2 large NON-METAL loaf pans. Mix additional 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 tsp. cinnamon. Dust greased pans with half of this mixture. Pour batter evenly into the 2 pans. Sprinkle remaining sugar and cinnamon mixture over the top.

Step 5:

Bake for 1 hour. Cool completely until bread loosens from the pan. Slice and serve. Recipe doubles well and freezes really well. Great for gifts.