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I came across one of my mother's cookbooks from 1954. A lot of the baked goods call for "1 cake of yeast". What would be the equivalent of this in today's supermarket?

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You can find fresh cake yeast in grocery stores, but it's much less common than active dry yeast granulates.

1 cake of fresh yeast is approximately the same as 1 envelope/packet of active dry yeast. 1 packet usually equals about 2¼ teaspoons, or ¼ ounce, or 7 grams of active dry yeast granules.

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