Home-Made Hop Yeast

Ingredients

• a good pinch of hops
• one quart of water
• three good-sized potatoes
• one quart of sifted flour
• one-half of a cupful of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Boil hops and potatoes in water until soft.

2. 2

   Mash potatoes, stir in flour and sugar, then add soaked yeast.

3. 3

   Let rise and dry in the wind or shade.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HOME-MADE HOP YEAST. Take a good pinch of hops and tie in a cloth; put over this one quart A water, add three good-sized potatoes pared and put all in a kettle to :>oil until potatoes are done. Take out the hops, mash the potatoes, and ?tir in about one quart of sifted flour, to which add one-half of a cupful of sugar. Have some prepared yeast ready, soaked, and, when cool enough, stir it into the other ingredients. Set to rise and then stiffen with corn- 'neal. Dry in the wind or shade. When dry cut in thin cakes, or leave in ^umps. Mrs. L. A. Hall. HOriE-MADE YEAST— No. a. To one large or two small potatoes one pint of hops, one leaf of tansy, one-half of a pint of catnip leaves, add three quarts of water.

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