Yeast Recipes

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Sally Lunn Yeast Bread
1 cake compressed yeast 1/4 cup lukewarm water 2 tablespoons sugar 1 3/4 cups milk (scalded and cooled to lukewarm) 4 tablespoons shortening 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs, beaten 5 1/2 cups flour (abo
Dried Yeast or Yeast Cakes
Pan of homemade yeast (See Homemade Yeast recipe) Corn meal, sifted and dried
Yeast That Never Fails
12 potatoes 4 quarts water 3 handfuls of hops 4 ounces brown sugar 4 ounces salt 1 Tbsp ground ginger Yeast
Yeast Loaves
2 quarts potato water 1 cake yeast flour 1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar
Homemade Yeast
6 large potatoes 3 pints water Handful of hops 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 Tbsp ginger 2 Tbsps salt 4 ounces yeast
Yeast
6 pared potatoes 1/4 cup hops 2 quarts water 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup salt 1 cup yeast, or 1 yeast cake
Bread Made with Dry Yeast
2 quarts flour 2 1/2 cups warm water 2 Tbsp lard or butter 1 yeast cake 1 Tbsp sugar 1 tsp salt
Rye Bread with Yeast
2 cakes yeast 1 quart lukewarm water 11 cups rye flour 2 tablespoons salt 1 teaspoon caraway seeds, if desired
Buckwheat Cake (without yeast)
2 cups buckwheat flour 1 cup wheat flour Pinch of salt 3 tsps baking powder
Potato Yeast
5-8 potatoes Small handful of hops 2 quarts of water 1 pint bowlful of flour Salt

Professional bakers often use fresh compressed cake yeast which is more predictable and easy to dissolve
Rapid-rise yeast has a different baking behavior from other types of yeast and will have a flavor that is more bland and texture that is more simple
Active dry yeast and instant yeast can be used interchangably
Test your yeast before baking: Add to a small cup of warm water and then add a Tbsp of sugar - If it foams, it's ready
Yeast and the leavening process create the air pockets and sponge-like texture in bread
Yeast activates the fermentation process, turning carbohydrates into gas (carbon dioxide) and alcohol
Yeast is a single tiny cell nearly the same size as a human red blood cell
Yeast is a type of fungus in the same family as the mushroom

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