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Yeast Cakes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Yeast Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add a pinch of salt to the flour.

  2. Mix in enough yeast to form a dough.

  3. Roll out the dough and cut it into small round cakes.

  4. Dry the cakes in the sun, turning them to dry both sides.

  5. Store the dried cakes in a tin in a dry place.

  6. To use, dissolve a few cakes in warm water to make bread.

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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