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Hop Yeast

A yeast mixture steeped in hops, flour, sugar, salt, and yeast, then allowed to rise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,373 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Hop Yeast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the hop tea

  1. Pour hot water over hops and let steep for 30 minutes.

Mix the batter

  1. In a stone jar, combine flour, brown sugar, and salt.

  2. Pour the hot hop tea over the mixture, stirring briskly to avoid lumps.

  3. Add yeast and stir well.

Rise and store

  1. Place in a warm area to rise, stirring often.

  2. Once light, transfer to a stone jug and store in the cellar.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Wheat + sugartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,071 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Hops + flourtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  5. Hops + wheattop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Hops
Provide bitterness and aroma that flavour the liquid and help preserve it.
Yeast
Ferments the sugars, producing carbon dioxide that makes the mixture rise and turn light.
Brown sugar
Feeds the yeast and adds sweetness and depth to the flavour.
Wheat flour
Provides starch that the yeast can work on, adding body to the mixture.

The step that matters

Stirring the flour mixture while adding the hot hop tea. Stirring briskly as the hot liquid goes in disperses the flour evenly, preventing lumps that would stay dry and slow even fermentation.

“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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