What should I do if I wanted to cook, for example, kvass or to please my family with lush fragrant pastries, created manually, but at the last moment it turned out that the house completely lacks live yeast or there is only a small amount of them? Refuse such a great idea? Of course not. The wisest decision made in this situation is to replace the yeast with something else.
To get many types of baking (bread, pies, donuts), as well as some drinks (beer, kvass), you need to create a fermentation process in the prepared product. During this procedure, carbon dioxide is produced in the test and the number of microorganisms needed for a magnificent baking (or drink) grows. It is the increase in their number that contributes to the splendor and porosity of baking.
We multiply the leftovers
Before replacing the yeast, let's check our own bins, all of a sudden we still have them? A small piece of them will very much help out a patient and economical hostess. Yeast is a living organism, and it can reproduce. Therefore, you can easily "grow" their colony in order to use the product of their vital functions (carbon dioxide) in the preparation of dough (or drinks).
First, we give an answer to the question of how to replace the yeast in the test, if you have a little lack of ingredient. According to the recipe, you need to take a large spoonful of the product, and only a teaspoon is available, and even that is incomplete. Do not panic - proceed to the process. Pour half a glass of warm water into a deep bowl and add half a teaspoon of granulated sugar. We lower the dissolved product residues into the water and put the resulting yeast in a warm place. Sugar will feed the remaining yeast, and they will begin to live and multiply, releasing the carbon dioxide we need. When a dense cap of foam rises above the water, pour the water with yeast and continue to prepare the dough for baking.
The benefits of beer
But how to replace the yeast, if not even their grains are left? Let's try to use beer. The proportions of the ingredients and the method of preparation of sourdough on beer:
- flour - 1 glass;
- sugar - 1 tablespoon;
- beer - 1 glass.
Mix flour with liquid, avoiding lumps. Place the mixture for six hours in a cabinet at room temperature. After the specified time, dilute a spoonful of granulated sugar in it. And now you need to keep such a sourdough in a warm place without drafts. When she begins to wander, knead the dough and enjoy the pies or buns obtained from it.
Potatoes in the dough?
Is it possible to replace the yeast with potatoes? Of course, this is entirely possible! The main thing - with all responsibility to approach the process of creating the yeast from it. The dough is perfect for baking bread and other products. Here is what we will definitely need:
- two medium potatoes;
- two tablespoons of sugar;
- a teaspoon of salt;
- tablespoon of water (boiled, warm).
Cooking technology
Peel the potatoes. Grind the tubers using a fine grater. Mix the gruel of their potatoes with sugar, add salt and dilute with water. Waiting for the start of the fermentation process, remove the mass for at least twelve hours in a warm place. Such a mixture is introduced while kneading pizza dough, pie dough or bread.
Kefir helps out
What can replace yeast for baking in a pan? This is probably the easiest option often used by housewives in the kitchen. If you need to quickly make a dough for pancakes or pies fried in oil, use kefir. Please note that this dairy product should be released two or three days ago. Kefir baking is soft and lush, especially immediately after cooking.
Loosening
Baking powder - this is what can replace yeast for dough. If you need to get very porous products, this component will not let you down. The powder can be purchased at any outlet or created in the conditions of your own kitchen yourself.
We need these ingredients:
- flour - twelve teaspoons without top;
- citric acid powder - three teaspoons;
- drinking soda (it is also called "food") - five teaspoons.
Mix all these components and place in a dry, tightly closed jar. When you want to cook homemade cakes, add the powder according to the recipe.
Raisins or grapes for sourdough
Grape sourdough will also help resolve the issue of how to replace yeast. And this is how the proportions and method of preparing this sourdough look.
Ingredients:
- incomplete tablespoon of washed raisins (or dried grapes);
- flour - 150 grams;
- 250 milliliters of warm water (pre-boil).
If you want to get high-quality leaven, then you need some time and patience. A reward for your work will be a magnificent useful (without yeast) baking, which, of course, will be glad to all your favorite family gourmets.
Cooking the leaven.
Pour pre-prepared raisins into a jar or other suitable container. Pour warm boiled water to it. We cover so that nothing gets into the dishes. We find the warmest place in the apartment and put the future sourdough into it. Be careful and careful - do not put the jar on a hot heating battery and places like it.
After three days, express all the liquid in a separate bowl. Add all the flour specified in the recipe to the liquid. The result should be a mixture resembling a pancake dough. To avoid unpleasant surprises, it will be more convenient to pour water into the flour, and not vice versa. So you can more clearly control the amount of these ingredients.
And now the final stage: for two days we remove the starter mixture in a warm place. Fermented sourdough can be used in any baking.