Monday, December 26, 2011

Cake Yeast and Molasses starter to make Amish bread for Christmas 12/25/2011

I didn’t want to take Craig’s thread about Fresh Yeast at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,16775.0.html too far off-topic, so I am starting this thread. Chau mentioned at Reply 19 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,16775.msg164473.html#msg164473 that he thought a starter could be made out of cake yeast. I have no doubts about what Chau posted.
I am trying to start a starter with frozen Red Star cake yeast, KASL, water, and molasses. Last evening I mixed 20 grams of KASL, 20 grams of spring water, 2 grams of Red Star cake yeast, and 2 grams of molasses. So far this is how my experiment looks early this morning. I have no idea how if this starter will take off or if it would be potent enough to use as a starter. What I want to see if the cake yeast flavor would contribute anything to the final pizza dough flavor.

It has been posted many times on the forum that cake yeast, IDY, and ADY are interchangeable, but I am more an experimenter, so I have to see for myself. I have posted I thought that Red Star cake yeast when mixed with water does smell like sourdough.

This is the link of the process of making the cake yeast and molasses starter, if anyone is interested.

http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,16884.0.html

The finished 5 loaves of Amish bread for Christmas. Everyone really liked the homemade Amish bread.

Norma






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2 comments:

  1. CedarglenDecember 28, 2011 at 2:14 AM

    Hi Norma,
    Oh, that looks like great bread - and great fun. I'd love to use fresh/cake yeast more often - but it is so darn hard to find and has such a short life - which explains what it is so hard to find. My only solution is to buy it from a small bakery. Even if they get a bit greedy abou the price, it still is not all that much. Happy Holidays. Love your blog, but posting comments is DARN near impossible. -Craig

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  2. learning pizza makerDecember 28, 2011 at 6:31 AM

    Cedarglen(Craig),

    Hi, The Amish bread was fun, even though I really don’t understand that much about bread. I agree that fresh yeast is hard to find. Glad you can purchase some fresh cake yeast from a bakery sometimes. I wonder about you comment that posting is darn near impossible. I have a thing on my blog that I have to review comments, then allow them to be posted, so if someone tries to post comments that I don’t want, I can just delete those comments before I post them. I haven’t had any problems so far.

    Norma

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