Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Homemade Yeast - Update

This was about 2 days later (than this). There's some real leavening power now! As well as some alcohol.

I had another jar going (these are re-used jelly jars) but it formed a hairy mold on top. I fed that back to our municipal water. I don't want to rinse the raisins since I feel I may wash away yeast. But it looks like there are other things growing on raisins that I don't know about.

The raisins that formed mold were Newman's Own Organic. The raisins that gave good yeast growth were Trader Joe's Organic Thompson.
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Photo: Bix

1 comment:

Perovskia said...

Would you be able to use the liquid after, for something?