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starter, Yeast Cakes From Hops, Homemade

Source of Recipe

by CookEatShare Cookbook


List of Ingredients

1 double handful of hops
2 med. Irish potatoes
3 pts. water
1 tbsp. sugar
3 tbsp. flour
Meal





Recipe

This means the blossom of the hop vine when it is just fully opened with the pollen still in it).
Tie the hops in cheese cloth; peel the potatoes; boil in the water till the potatoes are soft.
Throw away the hops; mash the potatoes in the water; add in the sugar and flour; set in a hot place till it foams. If you still have a cake of yeast from last making, add it in after soaking. This hurries the fermentation; but given time the mix will work without yeast starter.
When it has worked till good and light, thicken with meal so which you can spread it on a board and cut it into cakes about twice as big as the store cake. Set them in a cold place to dry. Soften one in hot water and use it in bread just like any other yeast. Keep the cakes cold and dry till needed