Amish Bread

Someone posted on Facebook that they had some Amish Friendship Bread Starter on Facebook.  I've been on an industrious streak so I figured I'd take some.  Never heard of it? It's this gallon bag of goo (yeast) that you feed and then use to bake two loaves of bread every 10 days. you also get 4 more bags of starter on baking day. Once which you keep, 3 you give away.  Well, let's just say I wasn't able to get rid of it for a time or two and ended up with way more bags. I just kept feeding the stuff like crazy and ended up baking and baking trying to get rid of the stuff (I've frozen the loaves).  I found variations on the internet and started to have some fun with it.  I've made regular (cinnamon) cherry cheesecake, white chocolate cherry, chocolate, lemon poppyseed & cranberry.  The stuff is addictive and the kids love it. I just whip a loaf out whenever I need to take a snack to something.  I have also learned how to control it. 

1) you can just bake it all
2) you don't have to feed it as much as the recipe states
3) you can let it go extra time before baking
4) you can freeze the starter.

The basic recipe uses a large box of pudding mix and by changing up the flavor and putting in some add-ins, you can get quite the array of variances.

So, it's been fun, esp now that it's no longer taking over my life and my 12 loaves I baked over 3 days are all safely in my freezer.