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Default What yeast is this ?

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Shadow > wrote:
>
>600 ml lukewarm water
>70 g white flour
>70 g common sugar
>10 g salt
>
> Put them in a plastic basin, in that order, don't mix. Cover
>with a cloth.
> After 24 hrs, mix gently 2x a day.
>
> After 5 days, there is a lot of activity.
>
> Take 200 g of the mixture above, put it in a loosely covered
>jar (I used a 1 liter plastic coke bottle with a loose plastic top)
>and add
>400 g warm water
>70 g white flour
>70 g sugar
>5 g salt
>
>Mix well.
> The next day it's fermenting so fast you can make bread with
>it, as long as you add a generous amount of sugar to the recipe.
> It smells yeasty, sweetish, and slightly alcoholic, but not
>sour.
> Anyone have any idea what the biological agents are ?


It seems similar to the Herman friendship cake/bread thing, although
some of them also have milk in.

Gordon