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Another Good Recipe for Yeast

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 16

This yeast will keep for six weeks in warm weather.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • Boil a handful of dried hops
  • in two quarts of water
  • four large potatoes
  • scald six tablespoonfuls of flour
  • adding one cup of sugar
  • and one cup of salt
  • thinning the liquid to two and a half quarts

Method

  1. Boil hops in water, add mashed potatoes, scald flour in the liquid, add sugar and salt, cool, then add yeast to ferment.

Nutrition per serving

92Calories
1 gProtein
22 gCarbs
0 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 16 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boil a handful of dried hops, or a two-inch cube, if you use those put up and pressed for market, in two quarts of water, and add four large potatoes, boiled, mashed, and strained ; scald six table-spoonfuls of flour in the liquid, adding one cup of sugar and one cup of salt ; when cold, add yeast to ferment it, thinning the liquid to two and a half quarts

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