yeast cake
Americannoun
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a small cake of compacted yeast for baking or the like.
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a cake or sweet bread containing yeast as a leavening agent.
noun
Etymology
Origin of yeast cake
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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She has baked Christmas cookies, no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies, date and nut bread, nut rolls, yeast cake, peach cobbler, snickerdoodle cookies, blueberry pie and cheese dip.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2022
In rolled the money, for there is more profit percentage in a yeast-pat for an adolescent, than in a big yeast cake for a canny bakery man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Half a pint of hot milk, half a pint of hot water, half a yeast cake, an even teaspoonful of salt and one of sugar, and about a pound and a half of white flour.
From The Golden Age Cook Book by Dwight, Henrietta Latham
Scald the milk and melt the butter in it, when lukewarm dissolve the yeast cake, sugar and salt and stir the flour in until as thick as bread dough.
From The Golden Age Cook Book by Dwight, Henrietta Latham
Dissolve the yeast cake in a little tepid water and add to the batter when lukewarm.
From The Golden Age Cook Book by Dwight, Henrietta Latham
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