Amish Friendship Bread on a Diet

By LimericksLady

Ingredients

• To the remaining batter add:
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups oil (or use 1/2 oil and 1/2 applesauce)
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 tsp. cinnamon
• 3/4 tsp. vanilla
• 2 1/4 tsp. baking powder
• 3/4 tsp. baking soda
• 3/4 tsp. salt
• 3 cups flour
• 1 large box of instant vanilla pudding.

Preparation

Step 1

Day 1: Do nothing.
Day 2: Mush the bag.
Day 3: Mush the bag.
Day 4: Mush the bag.
Day 5: Mush the bag.
Day 6: Add to the bag: 1/2 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of milk. Mush the bag.
Day 7: Mush the bag.
Day 8: Mush the bag.
Day 9: Mush the bag.
Day 10:
Add 3/4 cup of milk, flour and sugar. Mix well. Remove 1 cup of the batter into a new bag.
This will make three smaller loaves or two large loaves, or you can make muffins. Grease the bottom of the pans and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Pour batter into pans and sprinkle the top with sugar and cinnamon. Bake at 325 about and hour for bread loaves or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool until the bread loosens from the pan easily.
If you want to take a break from the bread for awhile, freeze your starter. If you want extra starter to give away or make a lot of bread, just go back to the original instructions.

I've had my starter for over a year now. I don't keep it in gallon bags, but use recycled sour cream or other type containers. I rarely "mush" the starter. If I think about it I might give the container a little shake. I don't worry about the days either. I feed the starter when I think about it, and do the day ten steps when I have the time.