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

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> 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.

Our modern bread yeast is not the same as Digby's bread yeast. It's been
modified and bred specifically for the bread application over the last
hundred years. (See English Bread and Yeast Cookery for more details.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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