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Yeast Cakes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Yeast Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stir light fresh hop yeast into Indian meal until it becomes the consistency of dough.

  2. Make this into thin cakes and dry on a board in the oven or in the sun with a current of air.

  3. Turn the cakes twice a day until thoroughly dried.

  4. Put the dried cakes in a bag and hang in a cool, dry place.

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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