amish friendship bread

      How many of you have heard of Amish Friendship Bread? The idea is to make two loaves from a portion of bread starter for yourself and pass the rest of the starter on to three of your friends, and they to three of their friends and the friends of those friends and so on and so forth into all the world goes this bread of love. Sweet Laura gave me a freezer bag of yeasty goo along with simple pre-tasty bread instructions to follow over a ten-day period. She also gave me a taste of the bread she'd made from the yeasty goo starter that someone else had given her ten days before that. Oh, twas tasty, my friends. So even as I type I have a loaf of bread in the oven waiting. Perfect for elevenses. Hey! I must say that not until this very moment did I realise 'elevenses' was a real word. (Thank you once again, Wikipedia!) My North American self had only ever heard the word in the movie Lord of the Rings as in my favourite following exchange:

Aragorn: Gentlemen, we do not stop till nightfall.
Pippin: What about breakfast?
Aragorn: You've already had it.
Pippin: We've had one, yes. What about second breakfast?
Merry: I don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.
Pippin: What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?
Merry: I wouldn't count on it.

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