Amish Cinnamon Bread

Shanda, this is per your request:

Amish Cinnamon Bread


Starter:

1pkg. active dry yeast(soften in H2O fro 10 min.)
1/4  C H20
1 C sugar
1 C flour
1 C warm milk

Mix ingredients and put in zip lock bag.  Do not refrigerate.  This makes the starter.

BREAD:
1 C oil
1/2 C milk
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 C flour
1 C sugar
1 1/2 tsp Baking powder
1/2 tsp. Each baking soda & salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 large box instant vanilla pudding(can use chocolate but I don't like it as much, I know Shanda won't use Chocolate, huh Shand!?)
1 C chopped pecans or walnuts(optional)

Day 1   Do nothing
Days 2,3,4 & 5   Mush the bag two x a day
Day 6   Add 1 C flour, 1 C sugar, 1 C milk.  Mush the bag until mixed.
Day 7, 8, & 9   Mush the bag and let the air out two x a day.
Day 10!  Pour and squeeze contents into large bowl.  Add 1 C flour, 1 C sugar, 1 C milk.  Stir together and pour 4 one Cup starters into zip lock bags.  Give bag and a copy of this recipe to  four friends.  You'll have some left in bowl.  Add to it 1st 4 ingredients together.  Mix ingredients in separate bowl.  Mix we and dry ingredients together.  Mix 1/2 C sugar and 2 tsp. cinnamon and set aside.

Spray or rub oil in sides and bottoms of 2 loaf pans(9x5) or 1 bunt pan.  Sprinkle sugar/cinnamon mix to coat insides of pan.  Pour half the batter into each pan and sprinkle remaining sugar/cinnamon mix on top.  Bake @ 325* for 1 hour.


*****WARNING***** THIS IS VERY ADDICTING*****  WARNING*****

funny story:
 Hunter reminded me yesterday about how we are supposed to avoid things that can be addicting and then he said,  "and things like hunting(glad he said that one first) and working out and going to Life Time can be addicting too, right?"

Yup.  That's my kid.  I could tell that one had been rolling around in there for a while.  It opened up a great conversation about not letting things control us or take away our free agency to a point where we can't function without having the substance we are craving.  By allowing ourselves to be addicted to something we give over some of our control to that substance.  It made me think about what I give my control over too.  Dog gone kids...

I asked him what brought it up and he said that when I was at the Cancer Walk/Run taking pictures for my friend that organized it, he was talking to Brother Black who was watching the kids.  Hunter asked him why he wasn't running it and Gabe's reply was that he didn't run because he didn't want to get addicted to it!  I was laughing and told Hunter that he was probably joking and trying to be funny but Hunter said, "NO he really was serious.  That's why he doesn't run."