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HOW TO MAKE GOOD YEAST
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HOW TO MAKE GOOD YEAST

12 ingredients 1 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

667
Calories
17g
Protein
1g
Fat
145g
Carbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 5 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Potato 1 medium (173g) baked 161
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Water not in our table 0
Hop not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 gallon of water
  • half cup of sugar
  • half cup of salt
  • two gallon jug
  • a cupful of flour in a large dish
  • a cupful of dry yeast
  • a small tablespoonful of ginger
  • 6 large sound potatoes
  • 2 ordinary handfuls of hops
  • six ordinary-sized loaves
  • salt
  • ginger

Directions

1

Take 6 large sound potatoes, 1 gallon of water, and 2 ordinary handfuls of hops; put the potatoes, after peeling them, into the water, tie the hops into a bag, and boil all together till the potatoes are soft enough to mash easily; throw the hops away, put a cupful of flour in a large dish, take the potatoes out of the water, mash them through a colander, and mix them well with the flour; then pour the water used in boiling the potatoes over them, and mix the whole thoroughly; let the mixture stand till about milkwarm, and then add about a cent's worth of baker's yeast or an yeast cake, or a cupful of dry yeast, and after stirring it again set the whole, away over night; in the morning add a half cup of sugar, a half cup of salt, and a small tablespoonful of ginger; put the whole in a two gallon jug, and use a cupful of this yeast at a baking for five or six ordinary-sized loaves. When you make your next lot of yeast use a cupful of this yeast instead of the baker's or other yeast called for above.

By Margaret Brown · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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