Hop Yeast

Ingredients

• 1 pint hot mashed potatoes
• 1 pint flour
• 4^ pint salt
• 1 pint hops (light measure)
• 1 pint sugar
• 4^ quarts boiling water
• 1 pint yeast (or 1 cake compressed yeast)

Method

1. 1

   Put hops in stew pan with one pint boiling water and boil twenty minutes.

2. 2

   Mix potatoes, sugar, flour, and salt, and strain hop water on them.

3. 3

   Beat this mixture well and add the four quarts boiling water.

4. 4

   Let this stand until blood-warm, add yeast, and stir well.

5. 5

   Cover the bowl and let stand twenty-four hours.

6. 6

   Skim and stir the yeast several times, place in jugs, and cork tightly.

7. 7

   Keep in cool place.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Manual for army cooks (1896) by United States. War Dept. Subsistence Dept., page 73. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HOP YEAST. 1 iDint hot mashed potatoes. i pint flour. 4^ pint salt. i pint hops (light measure). I pint sugar. 4^ quarts boiling water. i pint yeast (or 1 cake compressed yeast).

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.