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From: pjc2@nvuxb.UUCP (P J Carstensen)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: friendship cake
Message-ID: <181@nvuxb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 18:02:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 18:02:18 1985
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someone a while back requested a recipe for "friendship cake"
starter, which I assume is the same thing as Herman (as in "That
Herman is getting unruly again...I guess we better feed him.")
So to make starter mix together
    2 c flour
    2 c warm water
    1/4 c sugar
    1 package yeast

cover loosely and let stand overnight in a warm place. Then refrig,
stir each day. On the fifth day, feed with
    1 c flour
    1 c milk
    1/2 c sugar

On the tenth day, it is ready to use:  Give 1/3 of the stuff
away (to be fed immediately and on the fifth day, as above), use
1/3 to make sour-dough pancakes, waffles, or coffe-cake (see below)
and "feed" the left-overs to start the next batch...(Note: I don't
think you are sposed to store in metal containers, and you can feed
it all sorts of weird stuff like oat flour, and if you feed it late,
it tends to forgive you...)

I keep 1/2 batch going tho and don't give any away, just use 2/3
of the starter each time...

The way I make the coffeecake (which is non-standard, but I forget
the standard) is:

Take a bunch of chopped up fruit (apples, bananas, zuccini, mashed
cooked fresh pumpkin, (whole) blueberries) -- maybe 2 c. worth?
Add 1 egg, quota of Herman, 1/3 c oil, misc flavorings (choice of
cinammon, nutmeg, vanilla, molasses, wheat germ, etc.), sugar (1/2
to 1 cup -- depends on the fruit), sift in 1 c. flour, touch of salt,
1/4 t. soda, 1 t baking powder...stir up mess, throw in pan, bake at
350 until the top is reasonably brown...

Pat


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