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Yeast with Pease

A fermented liquid made by soaking peas in boiling water for 24 hours, producing a frothy yeast.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over the peas in a vessel.

  2. Let it sit in a warm place for 24 hours.

  3. The liquid will become a good yeast with froth on top.

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

Split or bruised peas
Provide the material that ferments in the warm water, producing the yeast.

“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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