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Sweet Yeast

Ingredients

• 4 large potatoes
• 2 quarts of water
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1/2 cup of salt
• 1/2 cup of flour
• 1 pint of hops
• 1 cup of yeast, or 1 cake of dry yeast

Instructions

Boil potatoes in the water. When done, mash the potatoes, and add sugar, salt, and flour.

Boil hops in the water in which the potatoes were boiled until strength is out; then strain in the jar with other ingredients; stir well.

When cool, add yeast, let raise, and put in jar. Keep in cool place.

Notes

Attributed to Mrs. Susie Seffner.

Source

Recipes Tried and True (1894).

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