To Make Yeast
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the malt liquid
Boil the malt in 1.5 gallons of soft water for 30 minutes.
Pour off the liquid and keep it warm for 24 hours.
Collect the yeast
Collect the yeast that forms.
Boil more malt and add it to the first liquid.
Repeat the process until you have enough yeast.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Malt
- Supplies sugars that the yeast feeds on as it grows and forms.
The step that matters
Keep the liquid warm for 24 hours. Yeast grows and becomes active within a fairly narrow warm range. Liquid that is too cold slows its growth, while excessive heat can kill it, so the warmth needs to be steady.
“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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