How To Make Yeast At Home. Every time I decide to make bread or pizza at home, I realize that I don't have any yeast available. Who knows how many times it has happened to you too.

Today we will see how to prepare yeast at home to always have it available and in large quantities.

How To Make Yeast At Home

We will prepare it as that gentleman did many years ago, who has not heard of the multiplication of bread and fish?

Let's prepare the ingredients: For the success of this "Miracle" we will need:

25 grams of water

25 grams of fresh yeast (8 grams of the dry one)

50 grams of flour zero.

The Preparation Of The Yeast

Heat the water with a saucepan a 28/30 degrees, not more, because it would kill the yeast. Once heated, dissolve the yeast cube in it and stir until it has dissolved completely.

At this point, add the water and yeast a little at a time i 50 grams of flour by kneading it with your hands or a spatula.

What to do now

After forming a ball with the mixture obtained, place it in a plastic container with an airtight cap and place it in the refrigerator to 3 days.

After i 3 days resume the dough, take it out of the container and make a sausage. Cut it into many pieces from 12 about grams and place them in freezer.

Ready and Always Available Yeast

Your cubes from 12 grams will be "Pure Yeast" that you can use whenever you need it.

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What To Do If The Dough Does Not Yeast. It is certainly not the first time this has happened, on the contrary, one of the frequently asked questions I am asked is: Because my dough does not rise.

It is clear that we have made some mistakes. The causes can be manifold, let's see how to solve the problem of the dough that does not rise together.

What To Do If The Dough Does Not Yeast

Pizzas, savory pies, focaccia and sweets have leavening in common. Let's see what to do when the dough does not rise.

Flour. Each type of flour has different rising times, The "wholemeal" flours rise very little, very slowly and sometimes they don't rise at all. Never use dough made exclusively with wholemeal flours, always mix them with weaker zero-type flours.

What to do if the dough does not rise

The salt: Salt is one of the fundamental ingredients for the preparation of a good dough. In addition to taste, it provides our dough with the right elasticity. Too much salt kills the yeast, this explains why salt should never be mixed with yeast but must always be added at the end of the dough.

The yeast: it is the basis of everything, always check the quantity and expiry date, especially if you are using fresh brewer's yeast which is a product that spoils easily.

Let's see the possible other causes

The temperature: Water directly affects leavening, always uses at room temperature. If it is irremediably cold it would block your leavening, if it is too hot it will kill the yeast bacteria. Always keep your dough away from drafts, cover it with a dry cloth.

The dexterity: You have used too much flour and the dough is too hard? This is also one of the common causes that prevent our dough from rising.

So what to do

If you have followed all my advice and the dough still does not rise, you can use the old grandmother's method: put it in your home oven turned off but with the light on, also add a saucepan of boiling water and close the door. After half an hour, check if it is rising.

Se neanche questo suggerimento funziona…ahimè vi siete dimenticati di aggiungere il lievito 🙂 quindi prendete un bicchiere di acqua tiepida scioglieteci dentro la dose di lievito suggerita dalla vostra ricetta, once melted, add it to the dough that does not rise. If the dough becomes too soft, add a small amount of flour and place it again to rise.

Conclusion

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How to Dry and Reactivate Mother Yeast. I could start from 1960, when there were no refrigerators, or there were very few who owned one, mother yeast was an indispensable thing for all those who prepared bread, pizza, savory and sweet cakes, then came the cold chain and with it the brewer's yeast. Problem solved!

I'm going too fast? Ok, slow down. Brewer's yeast used today for bread making, the one in cubes to understand better, it is composed of mushrooms which, added to water and flour, produce gases that give rise to leavening.

How to Dry and Reactivate Mother Yeast

The mother yeast is composed of lactic microorganisms which during fermentation produce carbon dioxide giving rise to leavening. It is generally composed of flour, water and a sugar used as an activator, usually honey.

Yeast, or if you prefer to call it sourdough it can be produced from scratch, or it can be bequeathed by someone who already "cultivated" it previously.

Same result but obtained with two different products.

Honestly, it's a lot of work to keep him at home, twice a week it should be washed, refreshed and we have to feed him otherwise he dies.

All is well until we have to leave home for a few days, for holidays or other commitments. So what happens? Our mother yeast dies, or as I suggest in this article we can dry it.

How to dry it

Just spread it over the parchment paper in a thin layer at room temperature until it is possible to crumble it into flakes or powder. You can store the flakes in an airtight glass jar and done.

This operation can take more or less time, depending on the season. Once crumbled and stored, our mother yeast will not need any maintenance or refreshments. It can be stored for many months.

And now how do you use it again?

By doing this in a couple of days it should be ready to use again for your next dough:

Rehydrate the yeast and then refresh it, as soon as you notice the classic fermentation bubbles it is ready to be used again. If you notice that the reboot is long and difficult, add a little honey and the problem will be solved.

Conclusion

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