Yeast Cakes
Ingredients
Directions
Stir light fresh hop yeast into Indian meal until it forms a dough.
Shape the dough into thin cakes.
Dry the cakes on a board in the oven or in the sun with airflow.
Turn the cakes twice a day until thoroughly dried.
Store the dried cakes in a bag and hang in a cool, 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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