Audra Shows Greg How to Make a Friendship Bread Starter
Friendship bread is more about the process, so pack your patience...it literally takes a couple weeks to make.
Recently, Greg was reminded of the days of friendship bread, which led him to ask for the recipe. Many viewers responded, including Christine Morenc and Joyce Walason both shared recipes. Friendship bread is more about the process, so pack your patience…it literally takes a couple weeks to make.
Friendship bread is a type of bread or cake made from a sourdough starter that is often shared in a manner similar to a chain letter. It’s a ten-day process. At the end of the ten days, you divide it into four portions, bake with one, and give the other three away. It can keep going indefinetly if nurtured or fed. The starter is a substitute for baking yeast and can be used to make many kinds of yeast-based breads, shared with friends, or frozen for future use.
This is what you need….it all will cost about $10. Get some active dry yeast, just one pack. Then get your all-purpose flour, granulated sugar the small bags will do and milk. Also, don’t forget freezer safe bags to store the mix. When you get home, measure out your ingredients. Go ahead and activate your yeast. Sprinkle a package on top of warm water in a bowl, let it stand 5 minutes. In another bowl mix the other ingredients. Cover it and allow it to stand until bubbly. You’ve completed day one.
Hre comes the fun part…..Day two, mash the bag. Day three: mash the bag. Mash it again on day four and five. Day six: add one cup each of flour, sugar and milk. And you guessed it…mash. Then again, mash on days seven, eight, nine and ten.
Then pour the sourdough into a glass bowl and add one half cup each of flour, sugar and milk. Divide out 1 cup portions of the starter into 4-5 bags. Keep one for yourself to bake. Then seal the bags and give the starter away to friends along with instructions. When they receive it…they pick up on day two. In the end you’ll use 2 and a half cups each of the flour and sugar.
