This starter has a buttermilk base, and it takes about a week to make. Then the starter is used to make a sponge, which takes one to two days and gives the bread even more flavor. The sponge is then ...

We are starting you off with the Amish Friendship Bread starter recipe and a recipe for bread to bake and share once day 10 arrives. Each Wednesday in October, TASTE will include another recipe to use ...

Chef Carla Hall had never heard of "friendship bread" before someone gave her a plastic zip-top bag full of a yeasty, mushy starter. As a young caterer just starting out, she got busy baking up a ...

The bread in the pan, one loaf topped with the sugar cinnamon, the other awaiting it. If you don’t like a crumb/crusty bread, and one newsroom taste tester didn’t, just skip dusting the pans and ...

If you were a fan of the so-called Amish Friendship Bread recipe that was popular in the 1980s and early '90s, but tired of the tending and maintaining and sharing of the starter, I have good news for ...

Friendship bread is the chain letter of baking: A simple starter that you divvy up, keeping some for yourself and sharing the rest with others. It's an old tradition that connect neighbors through the ...