Sourdough French Bread - Abm (Amish Bread Starter)

JanuaryBride's Note:

This is a great way to easily make some REAL bread with your Amish Bread starter. So tasty!!! I came up with this recipe through trial and error (lots of error before success). This bread is light and yummy, yet sturdy enough to cut nice slices. It's a tad bit sweet from the starter and is great for a PBJ, chicken salad sandwich, french toast, or simply toast with butter as a snack. Love it. This makes a 2 lb loaf; I tried to make smaller loaves, but never got it right!

• Total Time: 3 hrs 35 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 3 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 10

Yield: 1.0 loaf

• 1 cup hot tap water
• 1 cup amish starter
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 4 cups bread flour
• 2 teaspoons active dry yeast (feel free to put the entire little packet in)

Directions:

1. Place in bread maker in the order suggested by your ABM manufacturer (mine is a “Corner Bakery” and it is supposed to go in as written above.
2. Cook on French Bread Setting on Light crust for best results.

Reviews

[Smada5]

Very easy and makes a delicous bread for Grilled Cheese !
Thanks for giving me another use for my starter !

[:)Shirl(:]

This is a very nice bread! Easy to put together and uses up some Amish starter. I first was attracted to this because of the use of the starter, I then saw that it was made in the bread machine! Oh Happy Days!! This is not a sweet bread, as in coffee cake type, but a delicious white bread that has body. This tastes great, it made a delicious grilled tuna sandwich :) I imagine that it would make excellent french toast or stuffing, oh the uses! Thank you JanuaryBride for posting this most excellent recipe! One I will use again in about 8 more days :)

[Shelbyville Cook]

This makes a fantastic sandwich bread. Great with tuna salad. It holds together better than most homemade breads - and it uses that starter that we all get too much of!