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
When lukewarm add dissolved yeast cake and one and one-half cups flour, beat thoroughly; cover and let rise; when light add melted Cottolene, well beaten eggs, grated lemon rind and just enough flour to knead.
From Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners A Book of Recipes by Hiller, Elizabeth O.
Conversation lagged a bit for about half a hour, while we fell to and demolished this stuff, and Hector swells up like a human yeast cake under the kind words that come his way.
From Alex the Great by Brown, Arthur William
One cup stale bread crumbs soaked in two cups of water, three cups flour, one yeast cake to start.
From Cloud City Cook-Book by Nash, Mrs. William H.
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