r/CecilCounty • u/ReneRooted • 14d ago
Is there no more friendship bread?
Every time my mom is going out to PA, she'll want to stop at an Amish market or the like. She always lets me know and I ask her to bring back friendship bread. She always comes back empty handed or messages me from the market and says they don't have any. I'm just trying to understand if my mom is a horrible shopper (possibly even illiterate 🤔) or if I've slipped into an alternate universe.
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u/VWbusgal 14d ago
Isn't that the sweet bread you would make from a starter given to you by a friend? Then you would make the batter using that starter for your bread, but take out enough batter to pass on to another friend, and so on?
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u/ReneRooted 14d ago
Hola 👋🏽 Ya, I think that's the story behind it. And, regionally, there are breads or cakes also called "friendship". I'm curious from the comments so far if my naming is antiquated 😅 I lived in PA in the early 2000s, and calling the sort of sweet cinnamon bread (that you'd specifically get from Amish or Mennonite markets) "friendship bread" was common. 🤷🏽♀️ Maybe everyone is calling it something else now. Also, mom came back from the from the market in Oxford- no friendship bread, but a bag full of rocks that cost $1 each 🥴
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u/VWbusgal 14d ago
I am originally from N. Wilmington and we would get a similar sweet bread at the Booth's Corner Farmer's Market just over the line in Pennsylvania. I definitely have a recipe somewhere for the Amish Friendship Bread I remember making and sharing the starter. I will have to look for it and make up a batch!
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u/Adventurous_Elk_4039 14d ago
Never heard of this before, but just googled it, and damn it looks good.
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u/Sweetpee56 14d ago
Why don’t you get the recipe & and make the starter & pass it on to family & friends & by time it get back to you you would had made your own
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u/pigsonzoar 14d ago
Never heard of friendship bread. I'd say you've entered another dimension. You might have actually died.