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Bran Yeast

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Yeast
  2. Treacle
  3. Beer
  4. two quarts of water
  5. Brown sugar
Contains Gluten Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. A good serviceable yeast can be made from a pint of bran boiled m two quarts of water for ten minutes, with a nanaiul of good bops.
  2. Strain the liquor, and when lukewarm, add three or four table-spoonfuls of beer yeast, and two of brown sugar or treacle ;
  3. put it into a jar or small wooden cask, and place it before the fire to ferment ;
  4. when well worked it may be bottled, tightly corked, and kept in a cool place.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve