Last week my dear, sweet, generous Mother gave me the "starter" for Amish friendship bread, you know, the gift that keeps on giving.
After ten days of squishing the bag around, adding stuff, squishing the bag around, realizing the bag has a hole and moving the goop to another bag....the day for baking the stuff finally arrived!
I like to cook, I really do. This stuff has nearly gotten the best of me. I'm so very sick, but I drug my butt to the store for some ingredients and I have spent the past two and a half hours baking. What did my Mom do? She ran off to the beach and left her starter....on baking day. I'm telling you, it's like having a baby.
Hey Rachel, want to come hang out?
Gosh I wish I could, but I can't leave the fermenting bag on my counter alone.
A fever and a hot oven make a bad combination.
If you don't know how the Amish
On baking day, you're supposed to scoop out three 1 cup portions to give away to friends as starters and 1 to keep for yourself. See.....friendship. Well, I don't have a single friend that bakes (that I know of, feel free to enlighten me) so I made the stupid mistake of making a triple batch and keeping one starter for myself.
I have to do this again in 10 days.
Shoot me.
Next time, I will give 3 starters away to my garbage can before I bake a triple batch again.
Here is what I wound up with:
14 pecan raisin muffins
5 banana pecan loaves
3 cranberry vanilla loaves
24 cranberry vanilla mini muffins
Did I mention that they all are reduced fat? Not a drop of oil in the whole lot.
Those friends I was talking about....they'll show up now that it's all baked.
I'm thinking about a front yard bake sale.
That is hilarious! I don't know how you put up with that for so long. I like to bake and don't think I could do that! Enjoy all your bread!
ReplyDeleteLazy Mom Amanda had some of the starter and gave me a bag. She also gave a bag to my daughter. My daughter opened hers to let the air out and then didn't close it all the way. Imagine that goop spilling all over your counters, cabinets and floors. I threw it all out, I was so annoyed!
ReplyDeletethat is sooo funny, i remember getting that "stuff" when my older daughter was like 3. and i remember going through all of that then and thinking uhhhhhh but my then "3" year old just left on a plane last night to go back to your stomping grounds for her summer semester where she is studying journalism... rolll tide! anyhow, happy monday to ya!
ReplyDeletehugs,
shelley
http://iamstillstandingafterallthistime.blogspot.com/
That is hysterical! You have alot of bread to eat!!!
ReplyDeleteI did the same thing with my first few batches. Then I adjusted the feed amounts so that I'd have *just* enough when I got to baking time.
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