Potato Yeast

Ingredients

• 3 large potatoes
• 1 quart boiling water
• 1 cup salt
• any good yeast

Method

1. 1

   Peel and grate potatoes as rapidly as possible, pour on the boiling water and cook half an hour.

2. 2

   Add sugar and salt shortly before it is done.

3. 3

   When sufficiently cool, put in any good yeast to raise it.

4. 4

   Stir well together.

5. 5

   The next day it will be light as foam, and one teacupful will be enough to raise four or five loaves.

6. 6

   Keep in a cool place, and in summer renew every fortnight.

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.

POTATO YEAST. 3 large potatoes. 1 quart boiling water. i cup salt. Peel and grate potatoes as rapidly as possible, so they will not turn dark. Pour on the boiling water and cook half an hour. Add sugar and salt shortly before it is done. When sufficiently cool, put in MANUAL FOR ARMY COOKS. 163 any good yeast

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