Potato Teast

Ingredients

• eight good-sized potatoes
• one teacup sugar
• one teaspoon ginger
• one large heaping spoonful wheat flour
• two yeast cakes

Method

1. 1

   Boil potatoes until done, mash them in the water they were boiled in.

2. 2

   Mix in sugar, ginger, and flour.

3. 3

   When cool, add soaked yeast cakes and let rise in a cool place.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Potato Yeast — Take a small handful of hops, put in a granite kettle with three quarts water and boil till desired strength is ob- tained. Grate six medium-sized potatoes ; into the grated potato put one cup sugar and one-half cup salt. Turn on this mixture the boiling hop water ; stir till it thickens. Set away to cool until just warm, then stir in one cup of yeast. Set it to rise ; when done foam- ing, put it in glass jars. Keep it in a cool place ; or pare and boil four ordinary sized potatoes in two quarts oi water, boiling at the same time i]^ a separate vessel a gooa handful of hops. When po- tatoes are done, mash fine, pass throuh a colander, and add, after Btraining, the water in whicn the hops were boiled ; put into this YEAST. 49 ' " ' ' ' ■ I 1 1 ■■ ■ I ■ iiHfc one cup white sugar and one-half cup salt, and add sufficient water to make one gallon ; when cold add one cup good yeast, let stand in a warm place for a few hours, until it will " sing" on being stirred, when it is ready for use. Keep covered in a cellar or cool place. Potato Teaat — Take eight good-sized potatoes, boil until done take one teacup sugar, one oi salt, not too full, one teaspoon ginger, one large heaping spoonful wheat flour. Mix all together, put in the potato hot and mash fine in the water they were boiled in. Do not nave it thicker than batter. When cool put in two yeast cakes

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