Potato yeast, a variant of traditional flour yeast, is prepared in water, potatoes, salt and sugar; today we teach you how to prepare it and we invite you to explore, prepare and try a bread made by you. You will notice that its flavor and texture is very different from commercial bread, which only retains an appearance and traces of the flavor of an authentic homemade bread, the one that has always been eaten
.We recommend that if you want to preserve this yeast, you feed it every 4 days, adding a little of the water with which you boiled the potatoes, the teaspoon of salt and the tablespoon of sugar.
Prep
12 min
Cook
10 min
Servings
1
Cook the potatoes, cut in water.
Wait for it to cool down, grind it and store it with in a bowl next to the water you used to cook them. Add the sugar and salt. Cover it with a cloth and leave it in a warm, dark place.
2 tablespoons of potato yeast is equivalent to 1 tablespoon of baking powder
