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Baking bread building friendships at the library
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Guests lined up to taste the friendship bread after learning how to make it at the Poland library event on June 2.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Jen Kuzcek, a Poland librarian, stood behind the friendship bread she made for the guests to try at the Friendship Bread event at the Poland library on June 2.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
The Poland library hosted an event about friendship bread and how to make it on June 2.
Jen Kuzcek, a librarian at Poland library, led an event teaching adults how to make friendship bread. Kuzcek provided a pamphlet for the guests to take home with instructions on how to create a variety of friendship bread.
There were bags of dough started for the guests to take home to make their own friendship bread. Once it’s time to make the bread, people can add whatever ingredients they want to make different flavors.
“I think your imagination is fun to use when you make something like this,” said Kuczek.
After Kuzcek explained how to make the friendship bread and answered any questions the guests had, she showed them the three different types she made for the event. The guests had the opportunity to try each kind of friendship bread and have a cup of coffee to go along with it. Kuzcek provided an original friendship bread, a carrot friendship bread and a chocolate cherry friendship bread.
Amish cookbooks were set out on tables for the guests to look at and check out. Friendship bread is commonly known as being an Amish bread, but none of the Amish cook books had a recipe for friendship bread.
The friendship bread got its name from passing the excess dough along to friends. Once one person makes their loaf of friendship bread, the leftover dough is put in a bag and given to a friend as a gift for them to make their own bread and continue the chain of passing it along.