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Buttermilk Yeast Cakes

From Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant, 1907

Serves 10

Dry the cakes for storage.

Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Buttermilk Yeast Cakes Scald 1 qt fresh buttermilk but do not let it boil, and while it is scalding hot sift in about l*^ qts white corn meal mixed with 1 teasp salt. Stir vigorously, and when the mixture is lukewarm stir in 1 cake compressed yeast

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