2007-02-20 10:57:00 · 8 answers · asked by sleepy 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
No, a potato is a 'starchy vegetable' and a 'yeast' is another type of 'stuff' ... it's actually an 'animal' more than it is a 'vegetable' but not in any way that it could be called 'meat' ... it 'grows' and 'expands' and that is what makes your bread 'rise' after you make the dough. Potato can be made into FLOUR which becomes 'food' for the yeast, along with sugar ...
2007-02-20 11:13:02 · answer #1 · answered by Kris L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Potatoes are used to culture yeast and you can make something called potato yeast, which can be used in rolls and breads.
4 medium potatoes
4 cups water
A half a cup of hops
1 cup all-purpose flour
5 Tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons active dry yeast (or 1 dry yeast cake)
Boil the potatoes and drain the liquid into a separate container. Mash the potatoes.
Add the hops to the potato water and simmer for about 20 minutes. Strain through a dam cheese cloth.
Mix the flour, salt and sugar and mix it in with the mash.
Stir in the hops mixture and blend well.
Allow to cool till it is lukewarm.
Soak the yeast in 1 cup of lukewarm, previously boiled water and add to the hops mixture.
Stir in the remaining lukewarm water (previously boiled) and blend well.
Leave the mixture in a warm place for 4 hours - Check on it often, stirring the mixture each time the yeast rises to the top of the dish.
Spoon the yeast in a sterilized bottle (do not tighten the cap) and store in a cool place for up to 3 weeks. Use as needed in bread dough or any other type of dough.
1 cup of potato yeast is equivalent to about 2 teaspoons of dry active yeast.
2007-02-20 19:18:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The potato itself doesn't contain yeast, but the starch it contains can support a colony of yeast. Wild yeasts (single celled critters) exist in the air. Sourdough may have arisen that way--by yeast colonizing food left at room temperature. Yeast colonies do appear on some foods. The "bloom", the whitish substance that appears on some grapes, blueberries and plums is yeast.
2007-02-20 19:18:29 · answer #3 · answered by bluepotato2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no yeast in potatos. yeast is in things like bread. potatos have high starch, high carbs and are not very good for you.
2007-02-20 19:09:31 · answer #4 · answered by Kaysie :-) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
POTato is natrually grown in thE gROuND SO nO. dONT be silly
?. how can that be so?.
2007-02-20 19:00:27 · answer #5 · answered by rachie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no starch
2007-02-20 18:59:09 · answer #6 · answered by sadie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
do you maen Pom de ter?
2007-02-20 19:08:37 · answer #7 · answered by a person of interest 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, starch
2007-02-20 19:00:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋