yeast cake

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.