DEAR SOS: About six years ago, I received from a friend an Amish Friendship Bread starter, one of those batters in a sealed bag that you feed and knead for 10 days before splitting, baking and passing ...

There may not be a lot of Amish folks in Southern California, but plenty of people have recipes for Amish friendship bread starter. We are printing the one from Sue in Long Beach. Thanks, Sue, and ...

If I am known for any kind of baking in my family, it might just be the quick breads I seem to churn out all of the time. Whenever we have guests for breakfast, I make a loaf. When we welcome new ...

Family breakfast is one of the best times of the weekend, and these breakfast recipes will knock the meals out of the pa ...

Doris Bell of Baltimore was looking for a recipe for an Amish Friendship Bread. Typically, one would be given a “starter” for the bread and then it would take 10 days to complete. Based upon the ...

This starter has a buttermilk base, and it takes about a week to make. Then the starter is used to make a sponge, which takes one to two days and gives the bread even more flavor. The sponge is then ...

The label puzzled me, a seasoned bread baker who had just moved to southern Ohio from northern Indiana. I researched it in books. I asked around. I bought any available loaves for sale. I developed a ...

Somebody needs to talk to the Amish. Years back and states away, a neighbor brought over a bag of starter batter called Amish Friendship Bread. Fool that I am, I accepted the gift. What was not clear ...