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Amish Chocolate Bread

17 years ago

Someone gave me a cup of Amish Friendship Bread starter a few months ago and I've primarily been making the cinnamon bread version, but I decided to play around with the recipe.

I came up with a chocolate version and it is DEELISH!

If anyone would like a cup of starter, I can mail it to you with the instructions on feeding, recipes, etc. Just send me a message through the CF.

Amish Chocolate Bread

2 cups of Amish Bread Starter

3 eggs

1 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup milk

1 cup sugar

2 T of instant expresso powder (I use International Delights Swiss Mocha)

1/4 cup cocoa powder

1 1/2 tsp of baking power

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

3 cups all purpose flour

1 box Jello chocolate instant pudding

Cocoa powder sugar (explained below)

For cocoa powder sugar: mix 1/2 cup of regular white sugar with 2 rounded tablespoons of cocoa powder and set aside.

Mix all bread ingredients in a glass or plastic bowl using either a plastic, wooden, or rubber spatula. Do NOT use any metal utensils or bowls!! Mix well until there are no lumps in the batter. Preheat oven to 325 Â°.

Take 2 regular loaf baking pans and spray with Pam, add just enought cocoa sugar to coat the bottom and sides of pans. Pour bread batter equally into both pans and sprinkle the remaining cocoa sugar over the batter. Bake for 1 hour, or until butter knife inserted comes out clean.

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grainlady_ks
17 years ago
Check the link below for more recipes...

I have a nice booklet by Jackie Gannaway with recipes using the starter for Banana and Zucchini Bread, Bread Pudding, Friendship Cake, Cornbread, Pancakes, Biscuits, Scones, Coffee Cake, Fruit Bars, so lots of uses for the starter besides breads.

No recipe for a chocolate version, so I printed off your recipe and tucked it in the booklet :-)

-Grainlady

Here is a link that might be useful: Cooks.com - Recipes
Buehl
17 years ago
Thanks for the link Grainlady! My DD just asked me about "that cinnamon bread we used to have". It was Amish Cinnamon Friendship Bread (made w/pudding). I not only found the recipe but I also found how to make the starter for it!

BTW...have you ever tried starter w/gluten free flours? If so, have you found any that work better than others (or what to avoid!)?
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My guess is that you're not a baker, that a friend gave you a nasty looking blob of raw dough in a giant ziplock baggie, and instructions for feeding the beast in a process that lasts for days, and culminates in you baking the stuff, and then setting aside more unsightly blobs of dough in baggies to distribute to your friends a-la-chain letter. My advice? The bread is awesome and the process is fascinating... but only if you approach it with the right attitude. If you're over-stretched this time of year, or feel anything less than joy, throw that nasty blob away and don't look back. If this intrigues you at all, give it a try. Make a promise to only pass it on to people for whom you know this will bring joy (ask in advance). Your heart will tell you which approach is right for you. :o)
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I made MaryAnne's Recipe #2 last nite. I forgot to buy a pudding mix. It makes a huge cake! It was okay, but not as good as I was hoping. I did overcook it a teeny bit though. I was thinking it should have had baking powder in it, but it wasn't in the ingredients, and I was panicking. I thought cakes had BP, but I'm wrong, obviously. I have away the starters on Freecycle.....had lots of requests for it. I was surprised. I think I'll wait a while and maybe try it again with another recipe, one moister.
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KAW...chocolate....bread !!
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suzanne...I have been kneading by hand since the 70's and yes it is the perfect way to "feel " the bread and the experience in many ways :) But this is more like a brioche and the kneading of the bread and getting the butter into the bread and developing the gluten require special handling which ordinary kneading will not accomplish, If you are familiar with the "slap and fold" Bertinet method then you will be able to achieve similar finish otherwise this is not the bread to use standard hand kneading on. Good Luck to you and to mag...I hope you enjoy ! I will link to the technique below that you will have to use to make this bread. Nancy and mag...sorry about the typo above ! It is indeed 3 balls not 4 ! I will correct it now. Thanks for catching it ! Nancy glad you enjoyed the bread. If you are interested in making your own starter from wild yeast and also the apple yeast water let me know. It makes all the difference in the texture of the bread. I would be glad to direct you toward the method. c Here is a link that might be useful: Bertinet method...slap and fold
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Oh for sure you could. Any cake can be turned into cupcakes, and any bread can be turned into muffins, just adjust the time baked for. What kind are you going to make? Here is a link that might be useful: Our journey with autism!
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grainlady_ks
17 years ago
buehl -

The link below is a recipe for "Gluten Free Sourdough Bread" I've had in my "Need To Make" notebook since 3/7/2007 (I'll never live long enough to make everything in that darn thing at this rate...;-). It's a bit odd with the additions of kefir or kefir whey and kimbucha, but those are common ingredients around my house. I always have homemade kefir (made with real kefir grains) and I make kombucha during hot weather - I like it as a refreshing beverage, so I'm sure that was what caught my eye about the recipe.

You can also make rice flour starter - it's simple. You can use white or brown rice and mill it into flour yourself in a coffee/spice mill (Fresh-Is-Best) if you don't have a grain mill. If you Google - rice sourdough starter - you will find lots of instructions and recipes. Rice flour starter is similar to making starter with wheat flour and water.

-Grainlady

Here is a link that might be useful: Gluten Free Sourdough Bread
lisazone6_ma
17 years ago
Grainlady - could you give a little instruction on kefir? I've looked it up a few times, but I really don't understand what it is exactly or how you start it - it seems very complicated. I've only ever seen fruit flavored concoctions sold in places like Whole Foods. I get the impression that it's something like a thin yogurt drink with some "fizz" to it, but I could be completely off the mark! My sister was just diagnosed with celiac (sp?) disease and has had to eliminate all gluten from her diet. Being Italian, we live on bread and pasta so this is a huge change for her. I'm trying to find any gluten-free "bread" products I can for her to try out. Thanks for that sourdough link, but I'd like the kefir info to get started on it. Thanks so much!

I've printed off the recipe for the starter from the link, as well as the chocolate bread recipe - thanks for both! They sound delish!

Lisa

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