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yeast cake

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.


yeast cake

noun

  1. living yeast cells compressed with starch into a cake, for use in baking or brewing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of yeast cake1

First recorded in 1785–95
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Example Sentences

Dissolve the yeast cake and add it to the milk and a sufficient amount of the flour to make a sponge.

One pint flour, yeast cake; make a batter over night with warm milk and set it to rise.

Use one and one-half cups of this mixture in place of the yeast cake.

Another Biddy, engaged by a friend of ours, having to make a yeast-cake, put it under her bed-clothes 'just to plump it a bit.'

As soon as I do, you can run right down for the yeast-cake, and this time I am sure you will not stop on the way.

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