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Post by braided-rug on Nov 17, 2005 15:45:24 GMT 10
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Post by braided-rug on Nov 20, 2005 14:43:47 GMT 10
Great Grandma's bread making.
"They bought a 150 pound bag of flour at once, and they had a big bin in their pantry and it was tipped staight into that. Plain flour, it wasn't self-raising flour. You made your own yeast. Made the yeast out of potato water and a cup of hot scalded ? and a pinch of cream of tartar. You let the potato water ferment. You had to let it ferment to start your bottle off. After you got your bottle working you only had to tip your potato water into it and mix up your spoon of flour and the pinch of cream of tartar, the hot water and mix it all up and pour it into your yeast bottle. Put its cork in and sit up on the shelf. It would blow the cork off. We had a ceiling above our shelf in the kitchen all pitted with holes where the yeast used to blow the cork and it would hit the ceiling..."
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