Pecan Peach Amish Friendship Bread ~ Dozen Flours

By á-42919

Ingredients

• 2 About 2 cups of starter* (or whatever you have left after you've measured out 4 cups to share)
• 3 eggs, at room temperature
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup of unsweetened applesauce, at room temperature
• 1/2 cup milk (full, 2%, or skim will all work okay), at room temperature
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 2 cups all-purpose flour (I prefer to use unbleached)
• 1 cup of toasted and chopped pecans
• 1 15 oz can of sliced peaches in light syrup, thoroughly drained and diced

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from dozenflours.com

Preparation

Step 1

If you're new to the whole idea to chain-mail baking, allow me to enlighten you: Basically Amish Friendship Bread is a made with a sourdough starter that takes ten days to make, from start to finish. At the end of the ten-day period, you'll be left with approximately 6 cups of starter, four cups of which are to be given away and two for you to make something yummy. There are a

limitless treats you can make the starter

I'm not exactly sure why this is called Amish Friendship Bread. Although I've never actually spent time in an Amish household, I'm pretty sure that they'd shun the idea of boxed instant pudding mix. So in an effort to stay more true to the recipe's namesake, I left it out and opted to use canned peaches and pecans instead. I had reserved the juice from the can of peaches with the intention of making it into a glaze to pour over my finished bread, but after my family and I tasted the it, we decided that it didn't need it. It was pretty flavorful all by itself!

The recipe I've included below is my variation for Amish Friendship bread - I didn't do anything too crazy or different, I just added a few more instructions to help take the guesswork out of making it. If you're curious what the basic recipe is, or need a printable version of the instructions to include with your bags of starter, you can

Preheat the oven to 325F. Mix together the sugar and cinnamon. Set aside.

Grease 2 large loaf pans with shortening or Pam with Flour spray. Dust the greased pans with half of cinnamon sugar mixture.

In a separate bowl, mix together the eggs, oil, applesauce, milk, and vanilla until well combined (you can use a hand mixture for this step) and add it to the starter. Using a hand mixer or spoon, mix until all the ingredients are well incorporated.

In a separate bowl, whisk together the sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, kosher salt, and flour. Add it to the starter batter and continue to mix on medium speed until it's well combined and no pockets of dry ingredients are visible.

Mix in the pecans and peaches with a wooden spoon until they are well distributed.

Pour the batter evenly into the 2 pans and sprinkle with the remaining sugar mixture over the top.

Julia, I love your idea to add peaches to the Amish friendship bread! How fabulous!! The bread looks totally delicious. I started an Amish friendship bread "starter" in college. The bread was absolutely fabulous. Problem was, no one wanted to be the proud recipient of my starter. I ended up with most of the bags of starter myself :)

Your variation looks and sounds really good! I've made it, too, but definitely something I've started passing on when people offer me the starter!