[Sca-cooks] OT: We're in the honey!

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 5 Apr 2002, at 16:57, Seton1355 at aol.com wrote:

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> I'm assuming that Red Star Yeast was not around when Digby wrote his
> book. I'm just curious.... who said Red star was OK? and isn't yeast,
> well, ... yeast? Phillipa

There are different strains of yeast.  Although many brewers regard
bread yeast with disdain, Digby says in one of his recipes for
metheglin that one can use ale yeast or bread yeast.  Red Star is
a modern commercial producer of bread yeast.  (They also make
various brewing yeasts, but their bread yeast was what I had in my
fridge.


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