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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Let it stand in a cool place for twenty-four hours or more, and bottle for use. In winter- time this yeast should be kej)t in a warm place. It should be- stii'red before being used. It should stand to sponge all night, and will then requu-e to rise about two hours after being- kneaded. When fresh yeast is to be made, a pint of this preparation may be used instead of a tea-cupful of fresh yeast. A large tea-cupful of this yeast will raise fourteen pounds of flour. Yeast, Kirkleatliam.— BoU an ounce of hops in two quarts of water for twenty minutes. Strain the liquor, and mix with it quarter of a pound of flour and a little less than quarter of a pint o-f fresh yeasYeast, Kirkleatliamt. Bottle the pre- l^aration, and tie the cork down. When the bread is to be made, add mashed potatoes, according to the quantity of yeast required. For a peck of flour, boil and mash thi-ee pounds of potatoes, and mix with them half a pound of flour and half a pint of the yeast. Let the mixture stand all day. 'Mix it with the flour, and let it stand to sponge all night ; knead and bake next day. Time, twenty minutes to boil the hops in the water. Suflicient, half a pint for about a peck of flour. Yeast, Oatcakes made with {see Oat- cakes made with Yea&-t) . Yeast, Patent. — " To make a yeast gallon of this composition — such yeast gallon containing eight beer quarts — boil in common water eight pounds of potatoes as for eating. Bruise them perfectly smooth, and mix with them, while warm, two ounces of fine honey and one beer 'luart of common yeast. For making bread, mix three beer pints of the above composition with a bushel of flour, using warm water in making the bread. The water should be warmer in winter than in summer, and the composition should be used a few houi's after it is made. As soon as the sponge, or the mixture of the composition with the flour, begins to fall the first time, the bread should be made and put into the oven." This recipe is copied from the original specification in the patent oflice. Yeast, Potato. — Boil any quantity of good potatoes in their jackets. When done enough, peel, weigh, and mash them quickly, and with each pound mix a quart of boiling water. Rub the mixture thi-ough a hair sieve, and add an ounce of honey or bro^mi sugar to each pound of potatoes. Boil the mixture tiU it is as thick as batter; pour it out, and when lukewarm, stir into it a large table-spoonful of soKd yeast to each quart of water. Cover the mixture with a cloth ; it will be ready for use in twenty- four hours. Double the quantity of this yeast as of beer yeast will be needed. The next time yeast has to be made, use a bottle of this pre- paration (first poiu'ing off the thin liquid from the top) instead of fresh yeast. Fresh yeast will, however, be required every two months.