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
Add a pint of water to a pint of scalded milk; when lukewarm add one compressed yeast cake, moistened, and a teaspoonful of salt.
From Sandwiches by Rorer, Sarah Tyson Heston
"No, but I want a yeast cake and some flour to make bread with," said the mamma monkey.
From Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail The Funny Monkey Boys by Garis, Howard R.
The little wife had prepared the homemade yeast cake which she knew so well how to make and dry, and we had light bread to eat all the way across.
From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Wilson, F. N. (Frederick N.)
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