Cold Tea And Yeast

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 45

Cold Tea And Yeast

Dear Aunt Daisy, I heard you talking one morning about the uses of cold tea. I do not know if you have heard that it is good for sore eyes. I have used nothing else for bathing the eyes, and find it splendid. Even when the dog has a cold in its eyes, I use cold tea, and it is excellent. I am also sending a recipe of @ pudding made with cold tea. Now about yeast-you gave a recipe for home-made yeast, which stated two tablespoons of flour; but I find that two is not enough to work it with, and I have been making yeast for years. I used to make my own bread when under canvas with my husband. I used to make about ten pounds of bread a week in the camp oven. Also I make a little wholemeal bread; so I am sending you my recipe for the yeast I use. YEAST: Four tablespoons of flour, 1 tablespoon of sugar, a pinch of hops, and the water strained from the potatoes which are cooked for‘dinner. Put the potato water into a pan with the hops, and boil for about five minutes. Then strain, when cool, into the flour and sugar, which have been mixed into a paste with cold water. Then put it into a preserving jar or bottle, and let it work. I keep mine on the mantelpiece where it is warm, in the _ kitchen. If I forget to keep the potato water from dinner, I just put some water in a small pan with one potato, cut up in its jacket, and a pinch of hops, and boil for about half an hour. Then strain and add to the flour when cool. The yeast works in about a day or two, and in very hot weather it works the same night. COLD TEA PUDDING: One and ahalf breakfast cups of flour, 1 breakfast cup of mixed fruit, 4% breakfast cup of sugar, 1 breakfast cup of cold tea, 1 small cup of suet (shredded) or dripping, 1 large teaspoon of baking powder, 1 dessertspoon of any kind of jam. Mix all together and boil or steam two hours or more. Here is another very good pudding, suitable for the winter. MIDNIGHT PLUM PUDDING: One large cup of flour, 1 large cup of any mixed fruit, 1% cup of sugar, 2 tablespoons of butter, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 4% cup of cold water, and 42 cup of hot water. Melt the butter in the half cup of hot water. Dissolve the baking soda in the half cup of cold water, then mix all the dry ingredients together, and then add the liquids and stand all night. Next day put the cloth or paper over, and steam for three hours, This makes a very nice dark pudding.-‘"Huapai." » We are very grateful to you, Huapai, especially for your good yeast. More and more do we realise that we must "eat for health’-and yeast is such a very rich source of Vitamin B. (Continued on next page)

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