Homemade Yeast Cakes From Hops Recipe

• 1 double handful of hops
• 2 med. Irish potatoes
• 3 pts. water
• 1 tbsp. sugar
• 3 tbsp. flour
• Meal

1. (This means the blossom of the hop vine when it is just fully opened with the pollen still in it).
2. Tie the hops in cheese cloth; peel the potatoes; boil in the water till the potatoes are soft.
3. Throw away the hops; mash the potatoes in the water; add in the sugar and flour; set in a hot place till it foams.
4. If you still have a cake of yeast from last making, add in it after soaking.
5. This hurries the fermentation; but given time the mix will work without yeast starter.
6. When it has worked till good and light, thicken with meal so which you can spread it on a board and cut it into cakes about twice as big as the store cake.
7. Set them in a cold place to dry.
8. Soften one in hot water and use it in bread just like any other yeast.
9. Keep the cakes cold and dry till needed.
10. TO REPLENISH HOP YEAST WITHOUT HOPS:

handful of hops, irish potatoes, water, sugar, flour, meal

Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/homemade-yeast-cakes-from-hops-42712 (may not work)