Homemade Yeast - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. boiling water (from potato water)
2 medium size potatoes, peeled and boiled until tender
1 c. all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp. salt
1 1/2 Tbsp. ginger
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 cake dry yeast
cornmeal

Preparation

Pour the boiling potato water over the flour, salt, ginger and sugar; mix.
Then add potatoes, which have been mashed while hot. When this is lukewarm, add the cake of yeast, which has been soaked in a little lukewarm water.
Let the mixture work about 18 hours in a warm place, then stir in cornmeal until the batter becomes thick enough to mold into cakes.