History
There is no reason to think that the sweet, cinnamon-flavored bread has any connection to the Amish people, although the name is taken from them. According to Elizabeth Coblentz, a member of the Old Order Amish and the author of the syndicated column "The Amish Cook", true Amish Friendship Bread is "just sourdough bread that is passed around to the sick and needy".
The recipe for Amish Cinnamon Bread may have first been posted to the Internet in 1990, but the recipe itself is several decades old.
In 2011, a novel by author Darien Gee entitled Friendship Bread was published by Ballantine Books, in which a bag of Amish Friendship Bread starter makes its way throughout the fictitious town of Avalon, Illinois, changing the lives of those it comes in contact with.
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