yeast cake

/jist keɪk/
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Other forms: yeast cakes

Definitions of yeast cake
  1. noun
    small cake of compressed moist yeast
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    type of:
    barm, yeast
    a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
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