DEAR DOROTHY: I am interested in finding a recipe for a starter for Friendship Cake. This cake has become quite popular among my friends and family. DEAR MARY: Starters are simple mixtures of flour, ...

Friendship cake made with brandied fruit as a starter is the subject of today's column. It is a rather lengthy process _ 30 days by the calendar _ but it really takes just a few minutes each day to ...

Last week, readers shared recipes for friendship bread. This week we focus on friendship cake, which begins with either a yeast mixture or a brandy mixture. Making the starter is a lengthy process but ...

Friendship cake is so named because the cook ends up with so much of the basic sour-dough starter–even after the cake is baked–that there`s plenty left over to give away to friends. The basic sour ...

Dear Lisa: I used to love to make a cake called "Friendship Cake" or the 30-day cake. You would get your starter from a friend, and every few days you would add a fruit and sugar until it was complete ...

Those who make the Friendship Cake are exceptionally friendly. When Helen Blakey of Baltimore and Sharon Cramer of Perry Hall, requested a recipe for a friendship cake, particularly the starter, there ...

A big thank you to reader Carol Potocki for inspiring us to improve our service to all of you who like recipes and sometimes misplace them. Because of her note to me in January, we are now archiving ...

IF someone gives you a Friendship Cake, one thing is certain. They must really like you. And if they give you a cake and starter syrup, you must really rate. How else to explain a cake that takes more ...

Chef Carla Hall had never heard of "friendship bread" before someone gave her a plastic zip-top bag full of a yeasty, mushy starter. As a young caterer just starting out, she got busy baking up a ...

I have plenty of "starter" for Friendship Fruit Cakes if anyone is interested. Also, I have white and beige cotton seeds if anyone wants to put in a cotton field garden next spring. The cotton balls ...

affection for baking with Friendship starter in the newspaper's Food section. At the time, Vick was co-anchor for WJW Channel 8's noon news program. "A friend's wife gave some of the starter to me," ...

Friendship bread is the chain letter of baking: A simple starter that you divvy up, keeping some for yourself and sharing the rest with others. It's an old tradition that connect neighbors through the ...