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
Beat to a cream and add 2 eggs, the yeast cake dissolved in cup of lukewarm water.
From Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking by Unknown
Dissolve one fresh compressed yeast cake in one cup of warm water, and add that, with two more cups of warm water.
From Cookery for Little Girls by Foster, Olive Hyde
Mix flour and water in a jar, add a bit of yeast cake and a little sugar, and let stand in a warm place.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Ministry of Education
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