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Home-made Yeast

Home-made Yeast — a community recipe on Potlikkr.

Ingredients

• 6.0 Large Pototoes
• 3.0 pt Water Hops Flour
• 0.5 cup Sugar
• 0.5 tbsp Ginger

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Method (preview)

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   Boil six large potatoes in three pints water. Tie a small handful of hops in a small muslin bag and boil with potatoes; when thoroughly cooked, drain the water on enough flour to make a thin batter; set this on the stove or range and scald it enough to cook the flour. (This makes the yeast keep longer.) Remove it from the fire and when cool enough, add the potatoes (mashed), also half a cup of sugar, half a tablespoon of ginger, two of salt and a teacup full of yeast. Let it stand in a warm place until it has thoroughly risen, then put in a large mouthed jug and cork tightly set away in a cool place. The jug should be scalded before putting in the yeast. Two-thirds of a coffee cupful of this yeast will make four loaves of bread.

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