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Hop Teast

A fermented hop beverage made by boiling hops, adding flour, and fermenting with yeast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Hop Teast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the starter

  1. Boil a large handful of hops in 2 quarts of water until it becomes a strong tea.

  2. Strain the tea into a jar and add 1 pint of flour; stir until very smooth.

  3. Once cool, add ½ cup of yeast and set in a warm place until light.

Store

  1. Seal tightly, and always make fresh yeast before using all of it.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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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What each ingredient does

Flour
Thickens the liquid into a smooth batter and supplies starch for the yeast to work on.
Yeast
Ferments the mixture, producing gas that makes it rise and turn light.

The step that matters

Add the yeast only once the tea is cool. Yeast is a living organism, and very hot liquid can kill it. Cooling the tea first keeps the yeast active so it can ferment and lighten the mixture.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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