Yeast harvest and a yeasted raisin fritter 1560

Mar 12, 2015 20:42

I guess I am on a roll with this new cookbook.  Here's a new to me procedure to harvest yeast to use in yeast cakes.  I imagine that the rinsing process would remove the taste of barm and wine slurry to get a more delicate yeast flavor.  And though the recipe doesn't specify this, these types of fritters are often coated with sugar/cinnamon, which ( Read more... )

yeast, cooking, 16th century german, gebachens

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viking_food_guy March 13 2015, 14:42:56 UTC
Those sound good. The yeast rinsing procedure is essentially the same way we still recover beer yeast for pitching in another batch...

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