SC - Trenchers-Long

[cclark at vicon.net]

>Here is the Wroclaw Trencher receipe
> ... 2 cups thick beer
>1 cup active beer barm or 1/2 oz. active dry yeast ...

Unless this is a late period recipe (and probably even if it is), I would
assume that both the beer and the barm are ale and not lager beer. Ale yeast
is top-fermenting, which means that it produces enough gas to lift it to the
top. Lager yeast would be less useful as a leavening. Lager is also supposed
to have been made only in Bohemia until fairly late in the SCA period.

Modern bread yeasts are different varieties of the same species as ale
yeast. In period, the same yeast was used for both.

Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon

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