Home-brewed yeast

The English bread-book · Eliza Acton · 1857
Source
The English bread-book
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Ingredients (1)
Instructions (1)
  1. The yeast does not require watering to purify it, but merely to render it solid, that a learner may know exactly the proportion to take.
Original Text
Home-brewed yeast.—The yeast of mild* home-brewed ale is always much in request for bread-making, and is even bought up by some first-class London bakers from small farms and other places for the purpose. It does not require watering to purify it, but merely to render it solid, that a learner may know exactly the proportion to take ;
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