Name: Home-Made Yeast
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 6 large potatoes in three pints of water; 1 handful of hops in a small muslin bag and boil with the potatoes; 1 thin batter; 1 cup of sugar; 1 tablespoonful of ginger; 2 of salt and a teacupful of yeast; 1 warm place; 1 large mouthed jug and cork tightly; 1 cool place; 1 coffeecupful of this yeast will make four loaves

Original Recipe

Boil six large potatoes in three pints of water. Tie a handful of hops in a small muslin bag and boil with the 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 tablespoonful of ginger, two of salt and a teacupful of yeast. Let it stand in a warm place, until it has thoroughly risen, then put it 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 coffeecupful of this yeast will make four loaves.

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Boil six large potatoes in three pints of water.
2

Tie a handful of hops in a small muslin bag and boil with the 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 tablespoonful of ginger, two of salt and a teacupful of yeast.
3

Let it stand in a warm place, until it has thoroughly risen, then put it in a large mouthed jug and cork tightly; set away in a cool place.
4

The jug should be scalded before putting in the yeast.
5

Two-thirds of a coffeecupful of this yeast will make four loaves.

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