Yeast (For Making Home-Made Bread) (Our Own Recipe.)

Instructions

1. Take two quarts of boiling water, an ounce of salt, and three cups of meal.
2. Put the salt into a saucepan and pour the boiling water on it.
3. Strew on it gradually the three cups of meal, then cover closely, putting a cloth between the lid and the pot to absorb the steam.
4. Set it over-night in the warmest corner of your stove.
5. At six o'clock next morning stir into it a cup of boiling water; stand the saucepan on some hot ashes, and soon it will begin to ferment.
6. When ready for use it will have a frothy appearance and a disagreeable odour.
7. Pour it into six pounds of meal, mix with warm water, and knead into bread.