Friendship Bread Gone Amuck...

We have been having friendship bread floating from person to person. For those of you who are not familar with this process (aka burden): You have a starter bag of ingredients over ten days and many steps you get to the point in the process where you divide the batter into 4 different bags, keeping one of these bags and completing the process and making the bread flavor of choice.

I was talking to my best friend, Staci (matron of honor) when making the final steps of my bread last night. NOT A GOOD IDEA! I accidentally skipped a step and could not recover without finishing all the starters. What does this mean, you might ask? It means I made enough batter to make 8 loaves of bread. I didn't know if it could be done or how it would all work out and I kind of guessed at how to do it, since others said it was best to make all of the bread starters seperate.

I made 4 loaves of Banana Cream bread and made the batter for 4 loaves of Lemon Poppy Seed bread, which I am making tonight. My kitchen was trashed, and at 11:20pm I was covered in flower, sugar, etc. from head to toe. I finally finshed last night at 12am.

Moral of the story: When baking - don't be on the phone with your best friend or you have the potential for disaster.... or like me, stay up to late baking and overwhelming your house of 2 people with 8 loaves of bread.