Virgin Stock
Ingredients
Directions
Take some of the paste from your stock yeast and place it in a gallon jar, filling it about halfway.
Make the mixture as thick as a soft sponge.
Cover the jar tightly and place it in a warm location.
Stir the mixture every few hours until it begins to work, raising and falling like a sponge.
It should be ready in about four days.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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