Recipes Featuring Yeast
- Hot Rolls | 1 pint milk, scalded
1 pint milk, scalded
1 Tbsp butter
1 egg white, lightly beaten
Salt
3 Tbsps yeast
Flour
- 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
- Potato Rolls | 5 large potatoes, boiled & mashed
5 large potatoes, boiled & mashed
2 ounces butter
Salt
1 pint milk, warmed
1 Tbsp lard
4 eggs, beaten
2 1/4 lbs flour
2 Tbsps yeast
- Raised Flannel Cakes
1 quart milk
1 Tbsp butter
Salt
2 eggs, beaten
Flour
2 ounces yeast
- Potato Cakes
1 dozen potatoes
2 cups milk
1/2 cup butter (melted)
A little salt
Flour to make stiff enough to roll
1 cup yeast or 1/2 cake Fleishmann's - Sally Lunn | 3 eggs, whites & yolks beaten separately
3 eggs, whites & yolks beaten separately
1 quart milk
1/4 lb butter
2 Tbsps homemade yeast, more if it is baker's yeast
1 heaping Tbsp sugar
Flour
Salt
- Plain Doughnuts | 1 pint milk
1 pint milk
2 cups yeast
1 heaping cut butter & lard, mixed
3 cups sugar
Flour - Doughnuts | 4 quarts flour
4 quarts flour
1 lb sugar
3/4 lb butter
Salt
4 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 nutmeg, grated
4 ounces yeast - GRANDMA'S RYE BREAD
Yeast mixture:
2 Tbsps dry yeast
1/2 cup warm water
1 tsp sugar
First mixture:
3 cups rye flour
2 Tbsps salt
5 cups warm water
Second mixture:
5 cups warm water
12 cups white flo - Swedish Rolls
2 cups milk
1/2 yeast cake
1/4 cup lukewarm water
4 eggs
1/4 cup butter
2 teaspoons salt
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup currants
3 tablespoons cinnamon
flour to knead
1/2 cup chopped citron