Amish friendship apple nut bread

2 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
1cupAmish Friendship starter
At room temperature
3eachesEggs
cupVegetable oil
3teaspoonsVanilla
2cupsUnbleached flour
1cupGranulated sugar
2teaspoonsBaking powder
teaspoonGround cinnamon
1teaspoonBaking soda
1teaspoonSalt
1cupNuts; chopped
2mediumsApples;peeled,fine chopped

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease two 9-by-5-inch loaf pans. In a large bowl, beat together the starter, eggs, oil, and vanilla. Add flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda and salt; blend.

Fold in the nuts and apples; transfer batter to prepared loaf pans.

Bake 50 minutes and remove from the oven. Allow loaves to cool in pans 10 minutes, then tip out onto a rack to finish cooling completely.

Note: To make 24 muffins, spoon into greased muffin tins and bake for 25 to 30 minutes

Source: Oregonian FOODday; From "Marcia Adams' Heartland, The Best of the Old and the New from Midwest Kitchens Typos by Dorothy Flatman, 1995 Submitted By DOROTHY FLATMAN On 01-13-95