Amish Friendship Bread I Want to Bake It All at Once and Not Have Any Starters

What I did was... on day 10 (or 11 in my case), I followed as if I was making starters. Add the ingredients, divide into "4 equal portions,", and then make each of the 4 portions according to the "baking day" directions. You could do it all in one HUGE bowl, but it is a LOT of dough! And, if you do 4 separately, they can be different flavors: 1 cinnamon spice (according to direction), 1 with bananas & nuts, 1 with chocolate pudding and chocolate chips, etc (I figured as long as the dry/wet ingredients are close to the same volume as the directions, it would work). Also, I read somewhere that you can freeze a starter and just bring it back to room temperature before counting "day 1." The dough never really freezes (it feels thick, but still flexible) and I haven't tried baking from that stock, but it's worth a try...

You can freeze a starter too you know!

That way you will have one whenever you want in the future! Just leave it out for a couple extra days before "starting".

And yes, just bake it all up if you want. Only make it in seperate batches. MEasure out what the recipe calls for just do it multiple times. Things don't always turn out when you double and triple them....

I saved the recipe that came with my Amish Friendship bread and make it all the time with out the starter stuff. Tastes the same just as good and I don't have a bag of foam on my counter for 2 weeks. :) I also eliminate most of the oil it calls for and use apple sauce.

Do you have enough pans to do it all at once? I agree with Celina on doing them in separate batches, that is an enormous amount of dough. Check out the amish friendship bread recipes on allrecipes.com, there are several variations to choose from. If you like lemon, the Lemon Poppyseed variation is really good. The last time someone gave me a starter I added the ingredients on day 10 and then divided the recipe into 1 cup bags that I froze (most recipes call for 1 cup of the starter). Then I just thaw a bag whenever I want to bake some bread. I've also replaced 1/2 the oil with applesauce like Leah. Good Luck!!

I used to do this all the time. To figure out how much to use I put what's left in the bowl into a glass pyrex measuring bowl. Once I saw where it leveled out at that is the ammount I used for each batch. And yes, I did still add the stuff on day ten. It is essential. I made all sorts of things from muffins, cookies, pancakes, ect. Also, I used half whole wheat flour, applesauce instead of oil, and sometimes skipped the pudding. Still turned out wonderful every time. Check out this website for all sorts of recipes.

http://www.armchair.com/recipe/bake002.html