What yeast is this ?
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 ? TIA []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
What yeast is this ?
On 19-Jul-16 19:12, 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 ? > TIA > []'s > Wow! Not at all sure. Never heard of a scheme like that. If you've made it, how's it doing? Dusty -- "The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth." - Albert Einstein |
What yeast is this ?
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:30:30 -0700, Dusty
> wrote: >On 19-Jul-16 19:12, 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 ? >> TIA >> []'s >> >Wow! Not at all sure. Never heard of a scheme like that. If you've >made it, how's it doing? Made dough with it last night, baked it this morning. It almost quadrupled in size( almost tripled with the rise, then increased > 1/3 from oven spring). The gluten did not deteriorate at all, I could have let it rise more, it seems to feed on sugar only. But not as nice as sourdough, it has a slightly unpleasant after-taste, not noticeable if you eat it with jam, but quite definite if you eat it with only butter. I'll see what happens to the after-taste when I toast it. []'s PS try making it, it might be some "regional yeast" I picked up in Brazil. Not exactly expensive or labor-intensive. I'd be interested to know if this is a yeast present in all flour that gets killed off by the sourdough acidity. -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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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 |
What yeast is this ?
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:57:56 -0000 (UTC), Gordon Henderson
> wrote: >In article >, >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. Yes, it's something like what we call "Christ's Yeast". The smell is a little different though. Sweeter. Still interested in the biology of the yeast, and if it's in any way related to sourdough/commercial yeast. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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Shadow > wrote:
> 600 ml lukewarm water > 70 g white flour > 70 g common sugar > 10 g salt The inclusion of salt is surprising. Shouldn't it inhibit the micro-organisms, at least a little? -- Dario Niedermann. Also on the Internet at: gopher://retro-net.org/1/dnied/ , http://devio.us/~ndr/ |
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:05:59 +0200, Dario Niedermann
> wrote: >Shadow > wrote: > >> 600 ml lukewarm water >> 70 g white flour >> 70 g common sugar >> 10 g salt > >The inclusion of salt is surprising. Shouldn't it inhibit the >micro-organisms, at least a little? It probably does. But it's so fast that's a "feature", not a "bug". ;) []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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