The dough takes 10 days to bake, nine of those days being spent adding certain ingredients on certain days and allowing the dough to sit, undisturbed and without air, for the rest of the time. On the tenth day you add the last of the ingredients, separate the dough into four parts, and bake one of the parts for yourself. The other three parts go to friends, with a copy of the recipe, and so the "friendship" bread continues.
Cute idea.
Here is a quote from the recipe:
"This bread is very delicious and makes a great gift. Only the Amish know how to create a "starter" so if you give them all away, you will have to wait until someone gives you a new starter to bake more yummy bread."
Cute.
But wait a second...
...one of the ingredients is "1 large box instant vanilla pudding mix."
The Amish came up with this recipe? Really?
I'm not claiming to be an expert on Amish culture, but I can't help having some doubts concerning the origin of this particular recipe.
(Completely unrelated note that I cannot resist divulging: Stargate-SG1, season 3 episode 16, "Urgo." Dom DeLouise. Hilarious. Your quality of life will significantly increase within the hour it will take you to watch this episode - you need to watch it and hulu.com has it. Go!)
The Amish invented it... to begin with. The starter you got almost definitely didn't originate from an Amish family.
ReplyDeleteI used to make this stuff all the time. Back in my cook-three-square-meals-a-day-from-scratch phase. But it's been a while....