396 ARTIFICIAL YEAST. 



tension of acidity. This remedy was extracted from 

 the Oxford Journal, where, it may be presumed, it 

 originally appeared, but whether it be the discovery 

 of the person who published it, or whence derived, is 

 not said. Should it pass successfully general muster, 

 it will prove a matter of very great importance to 

 all persons concerned in those liquors to which it 

 refers^ 



The usual recipe for the home manufacture of 

 yeast boil^ one pound of flour, one quarter Ib. of 

 brown sugar, and a small table spoonful of salt, in two 

 gallons of water for one hour. When milk -warm, 

 bottle it and cork it close. It will be fit for use in 

 twenty-four hours. One pint of this yeast will make 

 181bs. of bread. This receipt for artificial yeast 

 comes recommended to me, but I have never yet had 

 occasion to make experiment of it, as in every neigh- 

 bourhood in which I have resided, chiefly in Surrey, 

 Middlesex, and Hants, the neighbouring families, 

 from their brewings, mutually supplied each other, or 

 recourse was had to the nearest brewhouse. 



