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To Make Baker's Yeast

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Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 10 ingredients

  1. a pound of brown sugar
  2. Blood
  3. a quart of hops
  4. a gill of good yeast
  5. seven pounds of flour
  6. a cup of warm water
  7. two quarts of water
  8. two quarts more of water
  9. a gill of this yeast
  10. a quart of fresh corn meal
Contains Gluten Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Flour Source of phosphorus · Source of copper · Source of manganese · +1

    Source of phosphorus · 106 mg per 100 g, 15% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Phosphorus contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Phosphorus contributes to normal function of cell membranes.
    • Phosphorus contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.
    1 more authorised claims
    • Phosphorus contributes to the maintenance of normal teeth.

    Phosphorus is a mineral contained in each cell in our body. Most phosphorus is in the bones and teeth, and some is in your genes. NIH fact sheet

    Source of copper · 0.2 mg per 100 g, 17% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Copper contributes to maintenance of normal connective tissues.
    • Copper contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Copper contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    5 more authorised claims
    • Copper contributes to normal hair pigmentation.
    • Copper contributes to normal iron transport in the body.
    • Copper contributes to normal skin pigmentation.
    • Copper contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Copper contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Copper is a mineral that you need to stay healthy. Your body uses copper to carry out many important functions, including making energy, connective tissues, and blood vessels. NIH fact sheet

    Source of manganese · 0.6 mg per 100 g, 28% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Manganese contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Manganese contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.
    • Manganese contributes to the normal formation of connective tissue.
    1 more authorised claims
    • Manganese contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Manganese is a mineral that your body needs to stay healthy. Your body uses manganese to make energy and protect your cells from damage. NIH fact sheet

    Source of selenium · 10 µg per 100 g, 19% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Selenium contributes to normal spermatogenesis.
    • Selenium contributes to the maintenance of normal hair.
    • Selenium contributes to the maintenance of normal nails.
    3 more authorised claims
    • Selenium contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Selenium contributes to the normal thyroid function.
    • Selenium contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Selenium is a nutrient that the body needs to stay healthy. Your thyroid gland needs selenium to produce hormones and function properly. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Flour, 00”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Make three tablespoonsful of wheat flour into a smooth batter, with a little cold water, then add to it nearly two quarts more of water, and quarter of a pound of brown sugar, put it to boil, stir it occasionally, then set it to cool ;
  2. \iJ:ien it is only blood warm, add a gill of good yeast, set the vessel in a warm place, or near the fire for one day, to ferment, then pour off the thin hquor .from the top, shake the remainder up, and put it in a bottle for use, or keep it in a covered stone jar ;
  3. half a gill of this yeast for seven pounds of flour.
  4. Yeast Cakes, called Turnpike Cakes.
  5. — Put a quart of hops into two quarts of water, cover them, and let them boil, then strain it hot over a quart of fresh corn meal, stir it well together, when cooled, so as to bear your hand in, add a teacupfiil 278 baker's rolls.
  6. of good yeast, or one turnpike cake dissolved in warm water, stir it well, make it in cakes the size of the top of a tumbler, and rather less than half an inch thick, lay them on a board, and set them in a dry, warm, but airy place, to rise and harden, do not put them in the sun ;
  7. when one side is dry, turn the other, and so turn them from side to side, until ihey are thoroughly dry and hard ;
  8. should the weather prove damp, these cakes may be dried near the fire.
  9. Keep them in coarse paper bags, in a dry, cool place ;
  10. half of one of these, cakes dissolved in a cup of warm water, is enough for seven pounds of flour.
  11. These will remain good for months.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon
  • Spatula
  • Sieve