Yeast for Making Home-Made Bread

Ingredients

• two quarts of boiling water
• an ounce of salt
• three cups of meal

Method

1. 1

   Put the salt into a saucepan, pour on it the boiling water, strew on it gradually three cups of meal, then cover closely, putting a cloth between the lid and pot to absorb the steam.

2. 2

   Set it overnight in the warmest corner of your stove.

3. 3

   At six o'clock next morning stir into it a cup of boiling water; stand the saucepan on some hot ashes, and soon it will begin to ferment.

4. 4

   When ready for use it will have a frothy appearance and a disagreeable odour.

5. 5

   Pour it into six pounds of meal, mix with warm water, and knead into bread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's "where is it?" of recipes (1891) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 87. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

EAST (FOR MAKING HOME-MADE BREAD). (Our own Recipe.) Take two quarts of boilinfj water, an ounce of salt, three cups of meal

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