yeast cake

American  

noun

1. a small cake of compacted yeast for baking or the like.

2. a cake or sweet bread containing yeast as a leavening agent.

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yeast cake British  

noun

1. living yeast cells compressed with starch into a cake, for use in baking or brewing

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Etymology

Origin of yeast cake

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

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

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

Lastly, add one-half a compressed yeast cake to the batter, and stir again until the yeast is thoroughly incorporated with the batter, which should be very stiff.

From American Cookery November, 1921 by Hill, Janet McKenzie

Half a pint of milk, half a pint of water, a pint and a half of white flour, an even teaspoonful of salt, half a yeast cake dissolved in tepid water.

From The Golden Age Cook Book by Dwight, Henrietta Latham