Yeast
Meaning
A type of fungus used in making bread and alcoholic drinks, which helps them rise or ferment
Pronunciation
UK jiːst
US jiːst
Example Sentences
- Doughnuts can be made from a yeast-based dough for more puffy doughnuts or a special type of cake batter.
- Yeast-raised doughnuts contain about 25% oil by weight.
- Yeast-raised doughnuts absorb more oil because they take longer to fry, about 150 seconds, at 182 °C to 190 °C.
- They mix flour, water, and yeast together.
- The yeast makes the bread grow big.
- Yeast, given flour and water, sets about devouring the [dough's] simple sugars and exhaling carbon dioxide as it goes.
Learn Yeast in Context
The Smell of Fresh BreadDo you like the smell of fresh bread? It is one of the best smells. Bakers make bread early in the morning. They mix flour, water, and yeast together. The yeast makes the bread grow big. Then the bake...Read story 
Why Bread Rises, and What Makes It CollapseA loaf of bread is, in the most literal sense, a fossil of trapped breath. What lifts it, and what betrays it, comes down to a quiet negotiation between gas and structure. Yeast, given flour and water...Read story
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