Create Yeast for Baking

Yeast allows bread to rise and gain air during the baking process. This guide allows you to create a yeast starter of your own.

Steps

Buy a small packet of dry yeast.
Put the yeast in water of about {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}}.
Add sugar to the yeast and water and keep the mix at between {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}}.
Keep feeding the yeast sugar and it will continue to grow.
Make sure to feed your yeast every time you bake with it, and if you bake infrequently, at least once a week. Take out a bit of it/what you intend to use for baking, and add enough warm water and sugar to bring it back up to it's former proportions.

Make bread using store bought yeast.
Keep a dollop of dough (approximately one cup).
Flatten the dollop of dough and place it in your flour bin.
A day before baking the next time, take the (now dried and hardened) piece of dough out of the bin.
Place the dry,hard dough into a bowl of warm potato and sugar water to soak.
Use the frothy water the next day as yeast and repeat the process for your next baking day.

Make yeast "cakes" with this method.
Bring one pint of buttermilk to a boil then remove it from the stove.
Stir and add cornmeal until quite thick then cool.
Soak yeast packet in warm water.
Stir the yeast into the cornmeal/buttermilk mixture and allow it to rise overnight.
Stir in half a cup or so of white flour and extra cornmeal to make the dough very stiff.
Roll out to thickness of store-bought cakes, cut into squares and let dry.
Use like store bought yeast cakes.

Store the yeast in a wooden bowl with a tea towel over the top to keep the temperature correct.
Use an oven to keep the constant temperature.