I’ve lost a recipe for cinnamon bread that our family loved. It was not a sourdough recipe but it did require mixing and adding an ingredient(s) over several days. The word Amish keeps popping up in ...

During stay-at-home orders for COVID-19, so many people took up bread baking that there was a shortage of yeast. “USA Today” reported that along with toilet paper and disinfectants, flour, sugar and ...

The Amish call it Friendship Bread. The recipe has been passed around for as long as I can remember. It begins with the starter that is a mixture of water, flour, sugar and yeast. If you are fortunate ...

Dear Lisa: I am presently trying the 10-day Amish Friendship Bread. It says not to refrigerate. How does the milk stay fresh? Why doesn't it make you sick? Sunday, my child and I will bake the bread.

There was a funny trend about 20 years ago, when people were giving each other Ziplock bags of mysterious beige goo. It was a starter, a living mixture of flour, water and yeast that you had to feed ...