. The Century cook book : with a new supplement of one hundred receipts of especial excellence. e yeaat requirements as much care as we do our geraniumsplant, or our roses. The yeast plant takes its nourishmentfrom sugar. This is found in flour. It converts thissugar into carbonic acid gas and alcohol, and thepressure of this gas causes the mixture in which itis generated to become inflated, or to rise. In mixing bread, we put the yeast into warm (nothot) water; this we mix with flour, thus supplying theMaKng moisture and nourishment required. We put thisbread. mixture in a warm place to force
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. The Century cook book : with a new supplement of one hundred receipts of especial excellence. e yeaat requirements as much care as we do our geraniumsplant, or our roses. The yeast plant takes its nourishmentfrom sugar. This is found in flour. It converts thissugar into carbonic acid gas and alcohol, and thepressure of this gas causes the mixture in which itis generated to become inflated, or to rise. In mixing bread, we put the yeast into warm (nothot) water; this we mix with flour, thus supplying theMaKng moisture and nourishment required. We put thisbread. mixture in a warm place to force the growth of theplant. When the dough has become sufficiently in-flated we put it into the oven and raise the heat to adegree which kills the plant and fixes the air cells, and our bread is done. In cities, where fresh compressed yeast can be ob-Yeast. tained, it is not worth while to prepare ones own.Where this cannot be had, the dry yeast-cakes oftengive satisfactory results, but are not as reliable as aliquid yeast, which in the country it is often necessaryas well as desirable to make.. FORMS or GROWTH OF THE YEAST PLANT.