I just wanted some bread!

So here's the story of a girl and a bag of goo...

note: If you've never heard of or received any Amish Friendship bread, read about it here.

1. A dear friend of mine agreed to come over for lunch, actually she brought lunch and stayed past naptime for some good conversation.  She also brought dessert...Amish Friendship bread.  Along with a starter.  To which I eagerly (and genuinely) said "yes please!"

2. I diligently followed 10 days of instructions.  Well, sort of.  The one day you are supposed to feed the goo bag I forgot.  But I did it the next day and changed my baking day to day 11, not 10.

3. Around day 7 I realized that in addition to the yummy bread I would be getting to keep for myself, I would also have like 4 things of starter that I would either have to keep making, or find homes for.  I mean, heaven forbid I throw it away.  It's like, $0.86 worth of groceries in a sandwich baggie.

4. So I googled for a solution.  No dice.  I asked my loyal FB friends...some luck.  I was sent an alternative where you basically double to recipe at the end and have half the amount of starter left over to deal with.  That was not the ideal, but it was the best option I had.

5. Baking Day.  I looked at the doubled recipe and realized that not only did I NOT want to use the half dozen eggs required to make 4 loaves of bread, I also did not have 4 loaf pans..I have 2 mismatched ones.  So I decided I need to go back to the original recipe, not this shortcut version and just end up with too much starter.

6. Then after measuring cup after cup of drippy fermented goo, I realize that I will only have enough for 1 loaf of bread!  This is actually good sounding news to me.  So I proceed to cut the recipe in half (mentally as I go along) and hope that I am not screwing up the amounts too much.

7. Now if you know me well, you know that multitasking while doing math in my head is not on the top of my "talents" list.  But lucky for me, I am actually really good with fractions thanks to my profession.  So I am measuring and dividing when I realize that I did my COUNTING wrong at the very beginning and I indeed DO have to make 2 loaves of bread.....

8. So now, I have to go through the recipe one more time and add back the other half of the eggs, baking soda and  so on that I subtracted out in the first place.  Did you catch all that?  Count, divide, add, recount, dived, add.  

9.  In the end, I baked 2 loaves of bread, socked away 2 starter bags in my freezer (which will each produce 4 loaves of bread when thawed(hopefully not by me)) that are up for 
 grabs.

Delicious Discovery of the day:

Amish Friendship Bread + Snow Cream = bliss!!


Lessoned Learned:


Just say NO!