Amish Friendship Bread

Ingredients

650 ml skim milk
60 ml low-fat buttermilk
600 gr all purpose flour
32 gr wheat flour
4 gr sugar
1 package dry yeast
160 ml canola oil
6 gr baking powder
1 egg
3 gr cinnamon
4 gr vanilla extract
1 gr salt
2 gr baking soda
270 gr hazlenuts
2 cherries

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350. In a large non reactive bowl, mix 0.75 cup of the skim milk, the buttermilk, 0.75 cup of the flour, the whole wheat flour, 1 t. sugar, and the yeast. Set aside for ten minutes or until the mixture starts to bubble. In a large mixing bowl, place the remaining ingredients, except for the hazlenuts and cherries and mix well. Fold in the nuts and cherries. Lightly wipe four 10x5x2 inch loaf pans with vegetable oil, divide the dough among the pans and bake for one hour of until a toothpick in the center comes out clean.