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Categories : fruits, desserts, breads
Amount Measure
Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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3/4 cup
canned peaches -- with syrup
3/4 cup
canned pineapple chunks -- with juice
4 ounces maraschino cherries -- drained and halved
1 1/2 cups
sugar
1 package dry yeast -- OR 2 tablespoons brandy
For later addition
1/2 cup
canned peaches -- with syrup
1/2 cup
canned pineapple chunks -- with syrup
To replenish starter
In a 1-gallon glass jar with wide mouth and lid, combine
the peaches, pineapple, maraschino cherries, sugar and yeast (make sure the
yeast is well mixed with syrup). Stir two times the first day. Stir once a day
afterwards. Keep loosely covered with cloth and store at room temperature
After the starter has been going for two weeks, add 1/2
cup each of pineapple chunks and peaches, along with their syrup.
Wait several days, stirring daily, then drain 2 cups of
mixed fruit and use to make cake as directed in the cake recipe. Reserve 1 1/2
cups starter juice and leave in glass gallon jar. Count this as Day 1, and
begin the process for renewing starter and making cake.
TO REPLENISH THE STARTER:
Day #1: To 1 1/2 cups starter juice, add 2 1/2 cups sugar
and 1 32 ounce can of peaches, including syrup. Keep loosely covered with cloth
and stir daily. Keep at room temperature.
Day #10: 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 (32 ounce) can
pineapple chunks with juice or 1 (16 ounce)
can pineapple chunks and 1 (16 ounce) can
fruit cocktail
Day #20: 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 (4 ounce) jars
maraschino cherries, drained and halved
(You can use 1
jar of red and one jar of green for color,
or use 1 (10
ounce jar)
Day #30: Drain fruit, reserving 1 1/2 cups juice for
renewing starter. Use drained fruit to make 3 Amish Friendship Fruit Cakes,
give excess starter juice to friends, and start a new batch of fruit (repeat
aforementioned process).
At the end of 30 days, you will have enough excess
starter juice to give to about four friends. Be sure to keep enough juice (1
1/2 cups) for your own starter. At the end of 30 days, there will be enough
fruit to use 1 3/4 cups fruit in each cake, which makes the cake better and
doesn't waste the fruit.
The cakes can be
frozen. It is not necessary to bake all three cakes the same day, but stir the
remaining fruit mixture every day until it is used (this fruit mixture can be
refrigerated until used). The drained fruit can be frozen until you are ready
to bake the cakes.
Read more at
http://www.recipegoldmine.com/regionalamish/amish-friendship-fruit-starter.html#qFtkrJe2ZCz6u2WK.99
Description:
"A brandied
fruit recipe for using in baking or as a topping on all sorts of desserts."
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 1595 Calories; 1g
Fat (0.5% calories from fat); 5g Protein; 410g Carbohydrate; 6g Dietary Fiber;
0mg Cholesterol; 72mg Sodium. Exchanges:
0 Grain(Starch); 1/2 Lean Meat; 5 Fruit; 22 1/2 Other Carbohydrates.
Serving Ideas : Use to make varieties of Amish FriendshipBread, or as a topping on ice cream, pound cake or cheese cake. May also be used as a fruit sauce with
various meats.
