I found a recipe for Amish friendship bread starter in a book I recently finished which made me remember that while I had my AFB starter years ago I really enjoyed it. I also learned that a AFB starter is a sourdough starter and there is a web page with TONS of recipes on it for just about everything you can think of to make with AFB starter! SO I followed the recipe and made my very own sour dough starter!! I'm still not totally sure that I didn't kill it this morning when we made sourdough pancakes with it and I'm hoping it will bounce back as I forgot to feed it before I took out the 4 cups of starter I need to make the pancakes. I did remember after and did feed it then so hopefully it is still alive! Here is the link that I found with the recipe for the starter and the things you can make with it. I fed my starter on white flour to start it off but I`m going to slowly change it over to whole wheat as that is what we use most for pancakes etc. I keep mine in a 1 gallon plastic bag in the kitchen which works well for storage without having to worry about spilling or contaminating it. I can`t wait to see what I can all do with it :) This morning we did the pancake recipe II on the site above and we thought it was a bit too sweet and the pancakes themselves were really soft and mushy and did not flip well at all. I think we will keep looking and see what other recipes we can find. I`d love hints :) Or recipes!! Just leave a comment on the bottom or email me!!
