Rita Heikenfeld's Friendship Bread

FRIENDSHIP BREAD YEAST STARTER
Leave this on the counter, don’t refrigerate. Put in a large bowl, covered lightly with plastic wrap. Or put in large baggie. Instead of stirring with spoon, squeeze the bag.

I like to give both a loaf of the bread and a starter to friends and family. The friendship bread is sweet, more like a cake, and so yummy!

Starter: (this is if you are starting from scratch, with no “starter” from a friend.)
Stir together 1 cup each flour, sugar, milk plus 1 envelope dry yeast. Let sit one day.
Days 2 through 5: stir with spoon
Day 6: add 1 cup each flour, sugar, milk
Days 7 through 9: stir with spoon
Day 10: add 1 cup each flour, sugar, milk. Stir and put 1 cup mixture into 3 separate containers. Give two away and use the last as your new starter.

Note: When you give the starter away, use these directions:
Day 1: do nothing
Days 2 through 5: stir with spoon
Day 6: add 1 cup each flour, sugar, milk
Days 7 through 9: stir with spoon
Day 10: add 1 cup each flour, sugar, milk. Stir and put 1 cup mixture into 3 separate containers. Give two away and use the last as your own new starter.


FRIENDSHIP BREAD #1
Because of the pudding in the batter, this is sweeter than #2.
With what’s left in the bowl, beat in the following:
3 eggs
1 cup oil
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

In a separate bowl, stir together and then beat with egg mixture:
2 cups flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts (opt)
1 large box instant vanilla pudding (5 oz approx)
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon or more

Follow directions above for preparing pans. Bake at 325 for 50-60 minutes.

FRIENDSHIP BREAD #2:
With what’s left in the bowl, beat in the following:
2/3 cup oil
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1-1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups flour

If you want, you can throw in a handful of raisins, chopped fresh fruit, nuts, etc. Pour into two sprayed and sugared loaf pans (sprinkle sugar in the pans on the bottoms and sides and dump out excess). Or mix in a bit of cinnamon with the sugar. Bake at 350 for 50-55 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pan.

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If Google's Doing It, It Must be Good

Or, “Si Google calls, oportet bonum” in Latin. At least, according to Google Translate, which just added Latin to the languages it supports. (I'm suspicious of that “calls” word, I can't find it in a dictionary and it doesn't look right.)

Latin will surely be at least as useful as Welsh (“Os bydd Google yn ei wneud hynny, rhaid iddo fod yn dda”) and Irish (“Má tá Google é a dhéanamh, caithfidh sé a bheith go maith”) to computer translation users.

According to my favorite English newspaper, the Daily Mail, Latin was a logical choice because so many documents already exist in Latin and are easy to access by the internet. Add to that the ever-growing number of high school and college students studying Latin, which is now back in vogue, and you've got to wonder what took them so long.

How accurate is it? According to Google, it's expected to be among the most accurate of its translation services. Unfortunately for users of computer translators, that means not very accurate. Translate the above translation back into English, and you get “Google If you speak, that must be good.”

Sort of the same, I guess.

Here's the beginning of St. Augustine's “Confessions”:

Great art thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised, for a large thy power, and of thy wisdom, there is no number. and to praise thee a man wills, some portion of Thy creatures, and the man his mortality Looking round, round a testimony and the testimony of his sin, because resist the proud: and yet the praise by thee a man wills, some portion of the tuae.tu rouse to the creature, as delighteth to praise thee, because thou hast done us to thee, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee.

Not exactly deathless prose. And not exactly English, at least not all of it. But Google may be right about the translations being accurate, at least translations from Latin to English, because users can suggest better translations. Surely many will suggest some of the best translations of at least famous documents.

But as far as translation from English to Latin goes, I don't have high hopes. Still:

In congrega nos, et perierunt derelinquimur in congrega nos caeci et claudi.
(Gather us in, the lost and forsaken; gather us in, the blind and the lame.)

Verbum ineffabile non obscuri. (The word ineffable is not hard to understand.)

Signatum supra cineres, nobis et rerum molesti. (Marked with ashes we have come, we the world so troublesome.)

It's fun! Have at it.