Dad's Saxon Yeast

5 ingredients
8 steps

Ingredients

  • 4 ounces hops
  • 4 quarts water
  • 4 pounds rye flour
  • 8 pounds barley flour
  • 6 ounces yeast, active dry

Directions

  1. 1
    Boil hops in water for 30 minutes.
  2. 2
    Strain into a large mixing bowl and set asid e until the mixture has cooled to warm.
  3. 3
    Add rye flour or rye meal to the mixtur e, mix well, then add yeast and mix thoroughly.
  4. 4
    Place the mixture in a moderate ly warm room to stand overnight; the following morning should find this mass in a state of fermentation.
  5. 5
    Add the barley flour to the fermented mixtrue.
  6. 6
    Mix to form a dough.
  7. 7
    Roll out an d cut into thin disks.
  8. 8
    Dry in the open air, away from the sun, and break into s mall pieces for immediate use, remembering that 1 tablespoon equals 1 cake or package of yeast.

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