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Yeast, Patent

"To make a yeast gallon of this composition--such yeast gallon containing eight beer quarts--boil in common water eight pounds of potatoes as for eating. Bruise them perfectly smooth, and mix with them, while warm, two ounces of fine honey and one beer quart of common yeast. For making bread, mix three beer pints of the above composition with a bushel of flour, using warm water in making the bread. The water should be warmer in winter than in summer, and the composition should be used a few hours after it is made. As soon as the sponge, or the mixture of the composition with the flour, begins to fall the first time, the bread should be made and put into the oven." This recipe is copied from the original specification in the patent office.