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Pumpkin Yeast

Ingredients

• 1 fine ripe pumpkin
• 1 large handful of hops
• 1/2 pint of good strong yeast

Instructions

Pare the pumpkin, and cut it into pieces. Put them into a kettle with the hops, and as much water as will cover them. Boil them till the pumpkin is soft enough to pass through a cullender. Having done this, put the pulp into a stone jar, adding the yeast to set it into a fermentation. The yeast must be well stirred into the pumpkin. Leave the jar uncovered till next day; then secure it lightly with a cork. If pumpkin yeast is well made, and of a proper consistence, neither too thick nor too thin, it will keep longer than any other.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).