Pass It On Bread Starter And Date Nut Bread Recipe

Total Time: 673 hrs Preparation Time: 672 hrs Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3 cups sugar (total)
• 3 cups milk (total)
• 3 cups flour (total)
• 1 cup oil
• 1/2 cup milk
• 3 whole eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 (6 ounce) box vanilla instant pudding mix
• 1 cup chopped nuts
• 1 cup dates or 1 cup other dried fruit
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon, combined with
• 1/2 cup sugar, for topping
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup sugar, to sprinkle in bottom of pans

Recipe

• 1 instant starter:.
• 2 place one cup each sugar, flour and room temperature milk in an 8-cup plastic container with lid. stir with a wooden spoon. cover tightly. stir every day for 17 days.
• 3 leave on counter top at room temperature.
• 4 on day 18 - do nothing.
• 5 on days 19, 20, 21 - stir.
• 6 on day 22 - add 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour and 1 cup room temperature milk. stir again.
• 7 on days 23, 24, 25, 26 - stir.
• 8 on day 27, add 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour and 1 cup room temperature milk. stir.
• 9 day 28 - starter now ready to make bread.
• 10 give away 2 cups starter to 2 friends.
• 11 with remaining, use 1 cup to make bread and 1 cup to keep starter going.
• 12 give instructions with starter: do not refrigerate. stir with wooden spoon.
• 13 ** this is where you are. take 1 cup starter to make bread. to the other cup of starter you received, add 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour and 1 cup room temperature milk.
• 14 stir with wooden spoon. cover tightly and stir each day (at least 4 days, can be longer).
• 15 when ready to make bread again, give away 2 cups with instructions. use 1 cup to make bread again, 1 cup to keep starter going, etc. etc., etc.
• 16 *** note: if you do not want to make starter to give away:.
• 17 to the 1 cup of starter only add 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 cup room temperature milk to make starter just for our own use.
• 18 date nut bread using starter:.
• 19 mix oil, eggs, vanilla and 1 cup starter mix together.
• 20 in separate bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, vanilla pudding mix.
• 21 add to liquid mixture, and stir till thoroughly blended.
• 22 add nuts and fruit.
• 23 pour into 2 9x5 loaf pans or bundt pan that has been sprinkled with the cinnamon, sugar, flour mixture.
• 24 sprinkle top of unbaked bread with the cinnamon, sugar mixture, bake at 325°f for 1 hour or until done.