Synonyms:
yeast
Meaning: any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
Synonyms:
yeast, barm
Meaning: a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
Usage examples
Yeast cakes will keep good five or six months.
So Uncle Wiggily held out the bright yeast cake.
It should remain till cool before working in the yeast.
It takes a pint of this yeast for five or six loaves of bread.
They are very convenient to use in summer, as common yeast is so apt to ferment.
"I want a loaf of bread, a yeast cake and three pounds of sugar," said Nurse Jane.
When cool, stir in half a tea-cup of yeast, and flour to make it stiff enough to mould up.
Milk yeast makes sweeter bread than any other kind of yeast, but it will not keep good long.
Yeast made in this manner will keep good a fortnight in warm weather; in cold weather longer.
Let it remain till lukewarm, then add a tea-cup full of family, or half a tea-cup of distillery yeast.