This recipe for poppy seed rolls calls for 1 large yeast. How much yeast am I supposed to use? I usually see recipes measure it in teaspoons, but I can’t guess how much “large” is. I am also assuming this is active dry yeast, maybe it’s not and that’s the reason why the size is weird.
Baking – Converting yeast amounts from old recipes
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Best Answer
This is short for “1 large cake of yeast.” According to this investigation, cakes of yeast traditionally came in two sizes:
This similar recipe gives the substitution “1 large yeast or 3 envelopes dry yeast.”’