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118 Artificial Yeast
Hop liquor for making yeast. Put one ounce of hops into four quarts of cold water, and let them boil slowly for ten minutes. Then take one pint of this liquid and strain through a hair sieve and when cool, stir in half a pound of fine flour. When the remaining hops and water have boiled ten minutes more, take them off and strain them and while hot, mix the two quantities together in a large Bason. When as cold as liquid ought to be for setting on yeast, put in two tablespoons of good fresh yeast  and place the mixture before the fire. Keep it covered till it just begins to ferment (which will be in a few hours) and then immediately put it into a very dry and sweet stone Bottle or earthen, which will hold six quarts -- Fit It close with a good cork, over which fix a peice of bladder to exclude all the air. Keep this Bottle in a moderate warm place, and when it has stood two or 3 days, you may begin to make yeast. 
To Make Yeast
Boil or steam some very mealy potatoes with the skins on (if boiled, dry them well in a pan) peel and mash them down to a fine powder. To every tea-cupful of mashed potatoes put a tea-cupful of fine flour; and when these are all mixed, Shake up the bottle of hop liquor, and add to them a tea-cupful of it Mix the while well together, and it will be about the consistancy of hasty pudding. Put it into a large jug, which must be covered

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118 Artificial Yeast Hop liquor for making yeast. Put one ounce of hops into four quarts of cold water, and let them boil slowly for ten minutes. Then take one pint of this liquid and strain through a hair sieve and when cool, stir in half a pound of fine flour. When the remaining hops and water have boiled ten minutes more, take them off and strain them and while hot, mix the two quantities together in a large Bason. When as cold as liquid ought to be for setting on yeast, put in two tablespoons of good fresh yeast and place the mixture before the fire. Keep it covered till it just begins to ferment (which will be in a few hours) and then immediately put it into a very dry and sweet stone Bottle or earthen, which will hold six quarts -- Fit It close with a good cork, over which fix a peice of bladder to exclude all the air. Keep this Bottle in a moderate warm place, and when it has stood two or 3 days, you may begin to make yeast. To Make Yeast Boil or steam some very mealy potatoes with the skins on (if boiled, dry them well in a pan) peel and mash them down to a fine powder. To every tea-cupful of mashed potatoes put a tea-cupful of fine flour; and when these are all mixed, Shake up the bottle of hop liquor, and add to them a tea-cupful of it Mix the while well together, and it will be about the consistancy of hasty pudding. Put it into a large jug, which must be covered