DEAR SOS: About six years ago, I received from a friend an Amish Friendship Bread starter, one of those batters in a sealed bag that you feed and knead for 10 days before splitting, baking and passing ...

If I am known for any kind of baking in my family, it might just be the quick breads I seem to churn out all of the time. Whenever we have guests for breakfast, I make a loaf. When we welcome new ...

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 ...

Cornbred is a quintessentially American food. It has roots in Native American cooking; indigenous people introduced it to colonists from Europe and it helped them survive in the wilderness that became ...

Somebody needs to talk to the Amish. Years back and states away, a neighbor brought over a bag of starter batter called Amish Friendship Bread. Fool that I am, I accepted the gift. What was not clear ...

1 teaspoon vanilla extractWhat To Do: 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Coat two 9- x 5-inch loaf pans with cooking spray. 2. In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, ...

Traditional Amish cinnamon bread uses a sourdough starter shared among friends, but this quick version is yeast-free. Simply ...