Boiled Potato Yeast
Serves 3
Bread made with this yeast will not sour even in the hottest weather.
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Ingredients
- Three large old potatoes
- half a cup of loose hops
- one quart of water
- three fourths of a cup of flour
- three quarters of a cup of sugar
- three quarters of a cup of yeast
- one fourth of a cup of salt
Method
Pare, soak, and boil the potatoes until broken into small pieces.
Drain and mash the potatoes; add the hop water and enough more hot water to make two quarts.
Strain, rubbing all the potato through, and put it on to boil.
When boiling, add the flour mixed to a smooth paste in cold water and the sugar.
Boil five minutes, stirring well; let it cool; add the yeast, and when well risen, add the salt.
Nutrition per serving
Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.
As published
This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Boiled Potato Yeast. (Mrs. Townees Matilda.) Three large.) old potatoes, pared, soaked, and boiled until broken in small pieces ; half a cup of loose hops boiled in one quart of water. Drain and mash the potatoes ; add the hop water and enough more hot water to make two quarts. Strain, rubbing all the potato through, and put it on to boil. When boiling, add three fourths of a cup of flour^ which has been wet to a smooth paste in cold water, and three quarters of a cup of sugar. Boil five minutes, stirring well ; let it cool ; add three fourths of a cup of yeast ; and, when well risen, add one fourth of a cup of salt
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