During stay-at-home orders for COVID-19, so many people took up bread baking that there was a shortage of yeast. “USA Today” reported that along with toilet paper and disinfectants, flour, sugar and ...

It"s the chain letter of cookery, just this side of scum, I mean scam. So there it is on your porch table, a jar of Amish bread starter. This is the gift that keeps on demanding. It becomes an ...

Dear Lisa: I am presently trying the 10-day Amish Friendship Bread. It says not to refrigerate. How does the milk stay fresh? Why doesn't it make you sick? Sunday, my child and I will bake the bread.

There was a funny trend about 20 years ago, when people were giving each other Ziplock bags of mysterious beige goo. It was a starter, a living mixture of flour, water and yeast that you had to feed ...

The Amish call it Friendship Bread. The recipe has been passed around for as long as I can remember. It begins with the starter that is a mixture of water, flour, sugar and yeast. If you are fortunate ...

Sourdough has become the bread of choice in the Eicher household. The recipe has a long and somewhat murky origin. Stories of its roots vary, but most center around friends sharing the starter with ...

Friendship bread is anything but. You'd never toast it, top it with jam and eat it for breakfast. It's way too sweet for that. As for the "friendship" part, well, something interesting happened when a ...