Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Sift into a pan three quarts of unbolted wheat meal. Stir a jill of
strong yeast, and a jill of molasses into a quart of soft water, (which
must be warm but not hot,) and add a small tea-spoonful of pearl-ash,
or sal-aratus. Make a hole in the heap of flour, pour in the liquid,
and proceed in the usual manner of making bread. This quantity may be
made into two loaves. Bran bread is considered very wholesome; and is
recommended to persons afflicted with dyspepsia.
RYE AND INDIAN BREAD.
Sift two quarts of rye, and two quarts of Indian meal, and mix them
well together. Boil three pints of milk; pour it boiling hot upon the
meal; add two tea-spoonfuls of salt, and stir the whole very hard. Let
it stand till it becomes of only a lukewarm heat, and then stir in half
a pint of good fresh yeast; if from the brewery and quite fresh, a
smaller quantity will suffice. Knead the mixture into a stiff dough,
and set it to rise in a pan. Cover it with a thick cloth that has been
previously warmed, and set it near the fire. When it is quite light,
and has cracked all over the top, make it into two loaves, put them
into a moderate oven, and bake them two hours and a half.
COMMON YEAST.
Put a large handful of hops into two quarts of boiling water, which
must then be set on the fire again, and boiled twenty minutes with the
hops. Have ready in a pan three pints of sifted flour; strain the
liquid, and pour half of it on the flour. Let the other half stand till
it becomes cool, and then mix it gradually into the pan with the flour,
&c. Then stir into it half a pint of good strong yeast, fresh from the
brewery if possible; if not, use some that was left of the last making.
You may increase the strength by stirring into your yeast before you
bottle it, four or five large tea-spoonfuls of brown sugar, or as many
table-spoonfuls of molasses.
Put it into clean bottles, and cork them loosely till the fermentation
is over. Next morning put in the corks tightly, and set the bottles in
a cold place. When you are going to bottle the yeast it will be an
improvement to place two or three raisins at the bottom of each bottle.
It is best to make yeast very frequently; as, with every precaution, it
will scarcely keep good a week, even in cold weather. If you are
apprehensive of its becoming sour, put into each bottle a lump of
pearl-ash the size of a hazle-nut.
BRAN YEAST.
Mix a pint of wheat bran, and a handful of hops with a quart of water,
and boil them together about twenty minutes. Then strain it through a
sieve into a pan; when the liquid becomes only milk-warm, stir into it
four table-spoonfuls of brewer’s yeast, and two of brown sugar, or four
of molasses. Put it into a wooden bowl, cover it, and set it near the
fire for four or five hours. Then bottle it, and cork it tightly next
day.
PUMPKIN YEAST.
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