Another Recipe for Yeast.
12 large potatoes, boiled and mashed fine.
1 teacup of brown sugar.
1 teacup of salt.
1 gallon of hop tea.
Mix the ingredients well, and when milk-warm, add a pint of yeast. Set it in a warm place to rise. Put one teacupful of this yeast, when risen, to two quarts of flour.—Mrs. Dr. S.
Yeast that Never Fails.
Boil twelve potatoes in four quarts of water till reduced to three quarts.
Then take out and mash the potatoes, and throw into the water three handfuls of hops.
When the hops have boiled to a good tea, strain the water over the potatoes, a small quantity at a time, mixing them well together.