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Reading an old baking book from the 1920s and one fact about yeast really threw me
I was looking through a copy of 'The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book' from 1925 and it said that a single cake of compressed yeast was enough to raise 8 full loaves of bread. That seems like so little compared to the packets we use now. I always use a whole packet for just one or two loaves. Has anyone else tried using that little yeast and had it work?
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emery1929d ago
Blame @sandrajackson for getting yeast all nostalgic now, but I tried cutting my packet in half once and my dough just sat there like it was waiting for a bus. That 1920s stuff must have been on steroids or something, because a third of a packet barely got my bread to twitch.
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