Fresh Yeast and Planning ahead to do Batch/Bulk Baking and cooking on a monthly basis
I was taught to use fresh yeast from an early age. In fact there was only fresh yeast or the bobbly ball grain dried yeast available to use then. None of your Fast Action Yeast although though I believe very much today that has its place and I do use it for the Bread machine bread and also the Christmas plum bread as well as other things. However there are a lot of recipes out there that only use fresh yeast and sometimes a conversion with the ingredients just does not work. So needs must and all that I sent for some fresh yeast. Mum always used to be able to buy yeast fresh from our bakers until they retired and then it became hit and miss. When she did find it she often used to buy what she could and use what she wanted and then freeze the rest. As I have not been able to locate fresh yeast readily for some time I decided to do a little bit of research on Ebay and I came up with a provider providing 1kg (not in one block mine arrived in two separate blocks) ...