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      Title: Amish Friendship Bread
 Categories: Breads
      Yield: 2 loaves
 
      1 c  Starter
      4 c  All-purpose flour; divided
      3 c  Sugar; divided
  2 1/2 c  Milk; divided
      1 c  Vegetable oil
      3    Eggs
      1 ts Vanilla extract
      1 c  Nuts; chopped
      2 ts Cinnamon
  1 1/2 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Baking soda
      1 lg Pkg instant vanilla pudding
           Solid shortening
           Cinnamon sugar
 
  Do not use a metal spoon, metal bowl, or metal pan!  Do not
  refrigerate!
  
  Day  1 - Do nothing
  Day  2 - Stir starter with wooden spoon
  Day  3 - Stir starter with wooden spoon
  Day  4 - Stir starter with wooden spoon
  Day  5 - Stir starter with wooden spoon
  Day  6 - Add 1 c plain flour, 1 c sugar, and 1 c milk; stir with
           wooden spoon
  Day  7 - Stir starter with wooden spoon
  Day  8 - Stir starter with wooden spoon
  Day  9 - Stir starter with wooden spoon
  Day 10 - Add 1 c plain flour, 1 c sugar, and 1 cumilk; stir with
           wooden spoon
  
  Pour into three 1-cup containers.  Keep one for yourself and give
  the other two to friends with a copy of this recipe.
  
  To bake bread:
  
  Pour the remainder of the starter into a large glass or plastic
  bowl.  Add 1 c oil, 1/2 c milk, 3 eggs and 1 ts vanilla.  Mix
  thoroughly with wooden spoon.
  
  In a separate glass or plastic bowl, mix together 2 c plain flour,
  1 c sugar, 1 c chopped nuts, 2 ts cinnamon, 1 1/2 ts baking powder,
  1/2 ts salt, 1/2 ts baking soda and 1 large box instant vanilla
  pudding.
  
  Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix thoroughly by hand.
  Do not use electric mixer.
  
  Pour into 2 large or 4 small loaf pans, which have been well greased
  (with solid shortening) and generously sprinkled with cinnamon sugar.
  Sprinkle extra cinnamon sugar on top.  Bake at 325°F for about
  1 hour for large pans or about 40 minutes for small pans.
 
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