Nik's friendship bread

16 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 cup Amish Friendship Starter, at room temperature
3 larges Eggs
¾ cup Vegetable oil
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
2 cups All-purpose flour
1 cup Sugar
5⅛ ounce Instant vanilla pudding mix (I use Jello, 5.1 oz., 6-serving size)
1¼ teaspoon Baking powder
½ teaspoon Baking soda
½ teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoons Ground cinnamon
4 mediums Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and chopped (if the apples are large, use only 2 or 3)
1 cup Chopped nuts, optional
½ cup Raisins, seedless

Directions

Grease 2 (8-1/2x4-½-inch) loaf pans. Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large mixing bowl, beat together starter, eggs, oil and vanilla. In a separate bowl or Ziploc bag, combine flour, sugar, pudding mix, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Stir into starter mixture. Fold in apples, nuts and raisins. Transfer batter to prepared loaf pans. Bake in preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until bread tests done. Allow bread to cool in pans 10 minutes. Remove loaves from pans and place on a wire rack to finish cooling. Wrap loaves in plastic wrap to keep bread moist, or freeze individual slices and warm in microwave as needed. This bread tastes best the second day. Makes 2 loaves (16 servings).

NOTES : To make muffins from this recipe, lightly grease three 12-cup muffin tins. Transfer the batter to the muffin tins, filling the cups about ¾-full. Bake at 350°F for about 23 minutes, or until the muffins test done. Let cool in pans 5 minutes. Remove muffins from pans; place muffins on wire racks to finish cooling. Makes 36 muffins.

Recipe by: Leroy Nikolaisen

Posted to Digest bread-bakers.v097.n016 by Julia West <classact@...> on Feb 24, 1997.

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