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[cleolinda]

Okay, so... it's been a while. I'm not sure why I haven't updated in a few days; I feel like I've been busy, but I'm not sure doing what.

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[katiefoolery]

Is that sourdough like those friendship cakes, where it's like all part of the one cake that's been going around for years? Perhaps the sourdough first began in the fifteen hundreds in some germanic country and has been growing unabated since then.

Or perhaps not.

But I still like the idea.

[cleolinda]

It may very well be the same theory, because I know she brought home "Sebastian" one night, but I looked at the container today and it said "Sebastian II."

[particle_person]

Friendship cakes? I've heard of friendship quilts where everyone makes a patch (or whatever the term is), but cakes that go around for years...that's kinda gross. Wouldn't it get hard to tell the purple frosting from the penicillin after a few months?

[thesarcasma]

I've made this friendship bread before. In fact, the recipe I got called it Amish friendship bread (which is just a weird coincidence, given that you mentioned the amish jokes).

It's not really a cake you pass around, it's like the sourdough starter, but it's batter for a bread/cake.

Basically someone gives you a container of the batter and then you feed it sugar and other ingredients every few days. And as you do it, it expands. And so when you're done you divide the batter in 3 or 4. You bake one into a bread/cake, and then you have one or two to give to someone else and you have another "starter" for yourself to start the process over.

The bread is actually VERY good. Lots of cinammon and sugar. Good with coffee/tea.

[thesarcasma]

Oh, I forgot to mention. The idea is that there is a little of the original batter in the batter that you give to a friend. Thus "it's been going around for years".

[particle_person]

Ah, it all makes sense now. Thank you!