yeast cake
noun
a small cake of compacted yeast for baking or the like.
a cake or sweet bread containing yeast as a leavening agent.
Origin of yeast cake
First recorded in 1785–95
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British Dictionary definitions for yeast cake
yeast cake
noun
mainly US and Canadian
living yeast cells compressed with starch into a cake, for use in baking or brewing