Recipes Featuring Yeast
- Fruit Bread
2 cups milk
2 cakes yeast
1/2 tsp salt
4 Tbsp lard
4 Tbsp sugar
1 1/2 cups fruit, finely cut - raisins, currants, citron, dates, figs or prunelles
Flour
- Water Bread | 4 cups boiling water
4 cups boiling water
4 Tbsp lard
1 Tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 yeast cake, dissolved in 1/2 cup lukewarm water
3 quarts flour, sifted
- Raised Muffins | 3 pints flour
3 pints flour
3 eggs
2 ounces butter
2 heaping tsps white sugar
Salt
1/2 cup yeast
1 quart milk
1/2 tsp baking soda, dissolved in 1 tsp hot water
- Pocketbook Rolls | 1 pint milk
1 pint milk
1 ounce butter
1 Tbsp sugar
Salt
2 ounces yeast
2 quarts flour
- Apple Cake
1 Yeast Coffee cake dough
Sweet-sour apples
Sugar
Cinnamon
Yeast Coffee Cake dough
2 cups milk
1 cake yeast
3 1/2-4 cups flour
1/2 cup butter, melted 1/2 cup sugar
Grated rind of 1/2 lemon - Flannel Cake No. 1 | 3 pints of milk
3 pints of milk
5 eggs
2 ounces of butter
Yeast - Water Muffins
4 Tbsps yeast
1 pint lukewarm water
1 tsp salt
Flour
- White Bread | 1 gallon flour
1 gallon flour
6 ounces of butter
1/2 pint of good yeast
Salt
2 eggs
1-2 spoonful water
Milk - London Hot-Cross Buns
3 cups milk
1 cup yeast or 1 cake compressed yeast
Flour
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup sugar
1/2 a nutmeg, grated
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
Flour
1 egg white, beaten stiff
Powdered sug - Tea Rolls | 1 cake compressed yeast
1 cake compressed yeast
1/4 cup tepid water
3/4 cup milk
1 Tbsp sugar
1 1/2 Tbsp shortening
3/4 tsp salt
3 cups flour
