Dried Yeast or Yeast Cakes
Ingredients
Directions
Mix sifted cornmeal into the home-made yeast.
Knead the mixture until it is thick enough to roll out.
Cut the dough into cakes or crumble it up.
Spread the cakes out and dry thoroughly in the shade.
Store in a 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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