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Yeast Poultice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Yeast Poultice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine fluid yeast with hot water.

  2. Stir in flour, oatmeal, flaxseed, or Indian meal until mixed.

  3. Heat the mixture while stirring until hot or let it rise by the fire.

  4. Spread the mixture on muslin and apply while fermenting.

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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