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Amish Friendship Bread
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Do not use any type of metal spoons or bowl for mixing. Do not refrigerate. If air gets into the bag, let it out.
It is normal for the batter to rise, bubble, and ferment.
Day 1: Do nothing. This is the date on which you receive the bag. Squish-squash-mush the bag.
Day 2: Squish-squash-mush the bag
Day 3: Squish-squash-mush the bag
Day 4: Squish-squash-mush the bag
Day 5: Squish-squash-mush the bag
Day 6: Add to the bag 1 C. flour, 1 C. sugar, 1 C. milk. Squish-squash-mush the bag.
Day 7: Squish-squash-mush the bag
Day 8: Squish-squash-mush the bag
Day 9: Squish-squash-mush the bag
Day 10: BAKING DAY! Mix and divide the starter as follows:
Pour entire contents of bag into large non-metal bowl and add: 1½ cup flour, 1½ cup sugar, 1½ cup milk.
Measure out 4 separate batches of the starter batter, 1 cup each, into 4 separate Ziplock bags (one gallon
size). Keep one for yourself and give the other 3 to friends along with a copy of this recipe/instructions.
Pre-heat oven to 325°. To the remaining batter in the bowl, add:
3 eggs
1 cup Canola oil
1 cup milk
1 cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp vanilla
1½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
2 cups flour
1 large box instant vanilla pudding
Grease or butter 2 large loaf pans and mix an additional ½ cup sugar and 1½ tsp cinnamon. Dust the
greased pans with half the cinnamon/sugar mixture. Pour batter evenly into the pans and sprinkle the top
with remaining sugar mixture.
Bake for 1 hour. Cool until bread loosens from sides of pan and turn out to serving dish.
If bag isn’t passed on to a friend on the 10th day, be certain to tell recipient which day the bag is at when
given to them. If you keep a starter bag for yourself, you will be baking every 10 days.
PLEASE NOTE
If you give your starters all away, you will have to wait until someone gives you back a starter or you can
google how make your own starter. This is not my recipe – it is a copy of a recipe that was passed on
to me – and now passed on to you.

Read more: http://thefrugalgirls.com/gifts-in-jars-recipes#ixzz29lsPLILC

Puff Pastry Cups

Wish I had a pic for this but its a great idea. Preheat oven to 400 F. Lightly flour surface. Lay out and thaw the sheets of puff pastry (found in the frozen section of your grocery). Get a muffin tin and lay upside down. Spray with cooking spray. Cut pastry into circles big enough to cover the underside of the cupcake bowl. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
You can fill these with ice cream, mouse, whipped  cream and berries...even sausage....the options are endless! Good eating, ya'll!

Christmas Make-ahead Gifts :)

Christmas is coming fast. I had already decided that the adults on my Christmas list were getting gifts-in-a-jar so I could really give them something special that they like. For some its easy, I find their favorite types of recipes and set them up with gifts like my Hoppin John Soup that I posted earlier. For others who don't or can't cook for some reason, I really had to put my thinking cap on. Favorite candies would be great (even the sugar free kind for those in my family who are diabetic). Bath salts or fizzing bath balls with a loofa is a plus too. Here is a pin from pintrest.com that shows some of what I am talking about. Its not my original pin but it sooooo tells more in picture than I could tell in words, http://pinterest.com/pin/79727855873212997/

Carrot salad, spread

I wish I had taken a picture of this but at least I am engaged to the cook.

1 cup finely minced carrots

3 T salad dressing or ranch dressing

5 or 6 green olives, pimintos included, chopped fine

minced onion to taste

raisins, minced

Mix it all together and season to taste with salt and pepper. Enjoy with crackers or, as I did, on a sub.

Enjoy.

Safe and Fragrant Mold Killer

Mix one teaspoon of teatree oil to a cup of water in a spray bottle. Spray affected areas and let totally dry. This will kill it fast!