Friendship Bread

Important tips: No metal utensils & DO NOT REFRIGERATE.
Starter:
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup milk
DIRECTIONS:
Put ingredients in a zip lock baggie (gallon size) and on the following days do as indicated.
Day 1 – Do nothing
Day 2 – Squeeze excess air out of the bag
Day 3 – Squeeze bag
Day 4 – Squeeze bag
Day 5 – Squeeze bag
Day 6 – Add one cup EACH sugar, flour and milk
Day 7 – Squeeze bag
Day 8 – Squeeze bag
Day 9 – Squeeze bag
Day 10 – Add one cup EACH sugar, flour and milk
Take 3 cups mixture and put one cup at a time into new zip lock bags. This is now starter for your friends.
To your batter add the following ingredients:
• 1 cup oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 large box vanilla instant pudding mix

Spray your bread pan and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar (1 tablespoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon). Add batter to pan and sprinkle top with cinnamon sugar as well. Bake at 325 degrees (preheated oven) for one hour. Test doneness with toothpick in center.

**A couple of friends and I used to make this all of the time about 25 years ago. A few weeks ago I had some at a friend’s house. She is still making it. I had forgotten how good it is.