How To Make Homemade Baker's Yeast? Here are 3 Easy Recipes.
Want to make homemade baker's yeast?
You are quite right ! Nothing better to make your homemade bread!
That's right, why buy yeast when you can make fresh yourself?
It's much more natural, more economical and it's easy to prepare!
My baker told me 3 recipes to make your own yeast: with beer, potato or flour. Look :
1. THE BEER-BASED RECIPE
The first recipe is beer unpasteurized or cider.
If you take pasteurized beer (the one that is usually found in stores), the recipe may not work well.
Better to choose a craft beer or a Trappist so that the bread dough rises well.
Ingredients
- 100 ml of craft or Trappist beer
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of flour
How to do
1. Pour the beer into a container.
2. Add the sugar and flour.
3. Mix everything well.
4. Leave to stand overnight at room temperature.
5. If the yeast has not yet set, let stand a few more hours.
Results
There you go, your beer-based baker's yeast is already ready :-)
Simple, practical and economical!
We must admit that it is quick and easy, isn't it? And you don't even need a Thermomix!
With this homemade recipe, you made about 50g of fresh yeast.
You can keep it in an airtight jar for ten days in a cool place at around 4 ° C.
2. THE POTATO-BASED RECIPE
This second recipe for making your own yeast is ready with a potato! Surprising, isn't it?
But very practical because you always have a potato on hand.
And you'll see, it's just as easy as with beer.
Ingredients
- 1 medium sized potato
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of salt
- 4 cups of boiling water
- 1 sachet of dry yeast (optional)
How to do
1. Peel the potato and rinse it.
2. Put it in a saucepan with the boiling water.
3. Cook until the potato is completely soft.
4. Take it out of the water and put it in a deep plate. Be careful, you must keep the cooking water.
5. Mash the potato with a fork.
6. Add salt and sugar and mix.
7. Let the mixture cool.
8. Pour the mixture into the cooking water.
9. Add a sachet of dry yeast (optional).
10. Cover.
11. Leave to ferment in a warm place (over 20 ° C) for one or two days.
Results
And there you have it, you have made your homemade yeast with a potato :-)
If the fermentation has not taken place, all you have to do is start over, because it is not possible to recover it!
Sometimes it takes several tries before having homemade baker's yeast.
But it's worth it !
3. THE FLOUR-BASED RECIPE
This yeast recipe is made with wheat flour.
It is an ancestral method for making homemade yeast.
She walks with any type of unbleached flour.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup of flour
- 1 cup of lukewarm water (not hot)
How to do
1. Pour the flour into a jar.
2. Add the water.
3. Cover the jar.
4. Let it sit in a warm place until the mixture rises and bubbles.
Results
There you go, your flour-based yeast is already ready :-)
In general, it takes 1 to 7 days, depending on the temperature and humidity of the place where you let your yeast sit.
When it's ready, take a cup of this yeast to make a loaf of bread.
Then add water and flour in equal amounts.
Use
Using homemade baker's yeast is the same as what you buy in the store.
Note that one cup of wet yeast is equivalent to one packet of dry yeast.
Additional advice
- The salt is used to preserve the yeast and the sugar is used to nourish the yeast. Respect the amounts of salt and sugar, otherwise the yeast will be too dry. If you put too much salt, the sodium chloride can deactivate the yeast. And too much sugar prevents the yeast from working.
- Make sure your kitchen equipment is clean and sterile. Bacteria must not contaminate the yeast. They could destroy your yeast and destroy all your efforts!
- Did you know that baking soda can replace baking powder? Find out how to do it here.
- On the other hand, baking soda cannot replace baker's yeast! Yes, we still can't ask him everything from this good old baking soda.
- Do you have dry yeast? It is dehydrated yeast that comes in the form of small granules. You can feed her to reproduce. You have to sprinkle the dry yeast on 10 cl of lukewarm water and wait for 10 min. A foam should form on the surface. This is when you need to add 1 teaspoon of sugar. Wait a few more minutes and you have baker's yeast to make your bread!
- Be careful, do not put yeast in your compost. Too many bacteria could grow there and throw your compost off balance.
What is baker's yeast?
Yeast is a leavening agent. It is a living (active) yeast that is used to make bread rise and make it lighter.
It is made with a fungus that is obtained during a process of separation and fermentation.
The strains used produce carbon dioxide which will allow the bread to rise.
Baker's yeast should not be confused with brewer's yeast which is dead yeast, made from strains that produce alcohol.
How to store the yeast?
- The yeast can be kept in the fridge in an airtight box for ten days.
- If you have a lot of fresh yeast cubes, you can freeze it without problem. Then, to use it, it must be dissolved in a little lukewarm water to reactivate it.
- Be careful with temperatures, however: the yeast must not be stored above 50 ° C and below -20 ° C.
Your turn...
Have you tried any of these homemade baker's yeast recipes? Let us know in the comments if it worked for you. We can't wait to hear from you!
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