Useful Yeast

yeast
(from Confederate Receipt Book. A Compilation of over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times, published by West & Johnson, 1863)

Ingredients:

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1 lb. flour​

1/4 lb. brown sugar​

salt​

2 gallons water​

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Instructions:

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Boil one pound of good flour, a quarter of a pound of brown sugar and a little salt in two gallons of water for one hour. When milk warm bottle it close, it will be fit to use in twenty-four hours. One part of this will make eighteen pounds of bread.​

 

[jgoodguy]

The recipe needs to be open to the air at some point or the yeast will never land to colonize. Most of the modern wild yeast recipes just mix up flour and water-no boiling. I think that the mixture is uncovered while cooling and that is when the yeast land in the mixture. Otherwise all you have is a sterile mixture or aerobic bacteria.

 

[donna]

Thanks. I just posted it as an authentic recipe but some may want to try it.

 

[jgoodguy]

Thanks. I just posted it as an authentic recipe but some may want to try it.

I may give it a try and see what happens.