Friendship Bread Book Review

Friendship Bread: A Novel by Darien Gee was calling my name from the new book section at the library.  I was just talking about making friendship bread starter so I decided to grab this book while I was checking out a million and one kids books for my little man.

This book is about the relationships between friends all formed from a starter of Amish Friendship Bread that was left on Julia's front porch from a mystery friend.  Julia and her daughter Gracie enjoy the yummy friendship bread and decide that they are going to make there own in 10 days when the starter is ready.  It follows the small town through the spread of the Amish Friendship Bread starter and meeting lots of different people throughout the town. 

The great part is there are recipes at the back of the book after you read all about the bread and the recipes that they make, you want to be eating a piece so the recipe is a good start.  Not only do they have the recipe for the starter which I hope to be making soon but the recipe for the bread (which I have made before) but brownies, biscuits, and pancakes.  Check out their recipe website with over 200 different recipes!! I think that it would be super nice to have this starter to keep making fun but watch out because it grows quickly!

Recipes can be found all over the Internet at All Recipes, Cooks. com, and blogs.  I highly recommend trying it and seeing how yummy this bread is and you might be hooked!!

I hope that you check out this book at your local library or bookstore.  I know that I enjoyed it a ton and it was a very fast read that I couldn't put down!!  The only negative that I have to say is that it took me a little bit to keep the characters straight but once you start reading it is super hard to put down.  I loved all of the characters and it was interesting to learn about the relationships through the town and how they were changed by the friendship bread.  Let me know if you check out the book and what you think!!