Amish starter recipes

You can make a variety of breads and baked gooods using an Amish Friendship Bread starter as the base.

If you haven't received a bag of Amish Friendship Bread starter but would like to make the bread, this is the recipe for starting your Amish Friendship Bread starter.

Get these warm and fluffy Amish Friendship Bread dinner rolls on the table in 30 minutes.

Starter for Amish Friendship Bread is a lively mix of flour, milk, and sugar that goes through a 10-day fermentation process before use.

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When yeast started becoming scarce a few weeks ago, I pulled a friendship bread starter out of the freezer that had been in there a year. Yes a year. I added 1/2 cup each of flour, milk and sugar and got the whole sourdough process started again. This classic homemade white bread was the first recipe I tested. And Maddie called it “super addicting“. That’s what we want! 🙂

Remember that one time I got Amish Friendship Starter? And I made that delicious bread? Yeah, it was awesome. And then I got creative and used that starter to make sourdough pancakes. They were so good. And there are so many options! Add cinnamon for that traditional "Amish Friendship Bread" taste, or just top it off with a cinnamon syrup. Or add fruit like I do to my bread. These sourdough pancakes have that delicious sourdough tang, and they are still fluffy and a tiny bit sweet. These are…

Find recipes to make with your Amish Friendship Bread starter such as Lemon Poppy Seed Amish Friendship Bread and Amish Sourdough Pancakes. Get the Amish Friendship Bread recipes here.

Start a tradition with this Amish Friendship Bread Starter recipe! Simple to make and a joy to share, this recipe lets you bake and pass along the goodness of homemade bread with friends and family. Perfect for busy moms, this starter keeps giving as you keep sharing!

Use your one cup of starter to yield dozens of these cinnamon-sweet Amish Friendship Bread snickerdoodles.