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...recipe: 1 packet active dry yeast (or 1 cake compressed yeast...
...Soften yeast in water. Combine softened yeast in mixing bowl with cottage cheese, sugar, onion, butter, dill seed, salt, soda and egg. Add flour gradually to form a stiff dough, pausing to beat well after each addition. Cover and let rise for 50 to 60 minutes in warm place (85° to 90°) until dough is light and doubled in size. Stir down dough. Turn into well-greased 8-in. round casserole of 1½ or 2-qt. capacity. Let rise for 30 to 40 minutes in warm place until light...
Between seizures of hot blood and high deeds, the heroes-one for each generation -make corn squeezings. They are artists who operate the pot still as if it were a pipe organ, mixing corn and small grain with boiling water, adding yeast, and from this wort-which is what the mash is called-distilling clear ethyl alcohol. Redistilled to remove foul-tasting fusel oil, aged for color and character in charred oak casks, the alcohol becomes whisky. Robinson is so explicit that an attentive reader with no fear of federal agents could try it himself...
...test the effects of radiation, the nose cone carried tubes containing living onion tissue, yeast cells, corn and mustard seeds, fruit flies, human blood (the donor: Captain William Augerson of the surgeon general's office), and the eggs and sperm of sea urchins. Some of the eggs and sperm were arranged to be mixed during the flight, causing the first conception of earthly life in space for the later study of earth-bound scientists...
Storyteller Masters, Calcutta-born Englishman-turned-American, whose tales of India (Nightrunners of Bengal, Coroman-del!) are full of a mysterious yeast, explains how he hit on Fandango Rock as a title. "Once, in a narrow street in Zaragoza, late at night, there were two radios" -one playing "the subtle, introspective, and uncompromising rhythms of a fandango," the other whanging out "a rock-and-roll, simple, outgoing-and uncompromising." Masters hits his moment of truth with this gone lyric...