Any bakers help me out?

ShyFeather
ShyFeather Posts: 138 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I've been wanting to make some recipes from a Japanese cookbook I have. I've been fine with all the ingredients except one (ホシノ天然酵母). I knew it was a yeast but not exactly what kind. I look it up online and this is what I find.

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Anything I look up online in English on natural leaven takes me to a sourdough recipe that uses a fermentation process that doesn't even mention this stuff. I think it's also called a starter but I'm not sure exactly. Anyone know what this stuff is and if I can find it in the States?

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  • davidjulian
    davidjulian Posts: 24 Member
    I just did some Googling and it seems Hoshino Natural Leaven can be used like any other yeast (think Fleishmann's). Just dissolve a couple teaspoons in some lukewarm water and let it sit for 10 minutes to see if it starts bubbling, indicated the yeast is active. Then you can just mix it with flour, etc. and continue on with your normal bread baking.

    It seems that Hoshino is sake yeast, so perhaps it comes from rice flour fermentation rather than wheat fermentation, like brewer's yeast such as Fleishmann's. It could give the bread a delicious quality -- try it with some rye or buckwheat flour and I bet it would be delicious.

    Let us know how it goes!
  • lyttlewon
    lyttlewon Posts: 1,118 Member
    What are you trying to cook?
  • ShyFeather
    ShyFeather Posts: 138 Member
    I just did some Googling and it seems Hoshino Natural Leaven can be used like any other yeast (think Fleishmann's). Just dissolve a couple teaspoons in some lukewarm water and let it sit for 10 minutes to see if it starts bubbling, indicated the yeast is active. Then you can just mix it with flour, etc. and continue on with your normal bread baking.

    It seems that Hoshino is sake yeast, so perhaps it comes from rice flour fermentation rather than wheat fermentation, like brewer's yeast such as Fleishmann's. It could give the bread a delicious quality -- try it with some rye or buckwheat flour and I bet it would be delicious.

    Let us know how it goes!
    Thank you so much. I'll give it a shot and see how it turns out

    And to lyttlewon, I want make the Red Bean Muffin recipe.

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