Product Description
Lesaffre Red Star Fresh Compressed Yeast, 1 lb
Fresh compressed yeast (also called cake or block yeast) is what most professional bakers reach for. It’s living yeast pressed into a moist, crumbly block, ready to ferment the moment it hits your dough. Expect vigorous rise, a gentle natural sweetness, and a fuller, more complex fermented aroma in your finished loaf.
This 1 lb block from Lesaffre’s Red Star line performs beautifully across a wide range of baking: lean French breads and ciabatta, pizza dough, brioche and cinnamon buns, and holiday classics like panettone and stollen.
How to use it
Crumble directly into your flour, or dissolve in a little warm (not hot) water first. As a general guide, use roughly three times the weight of fresh yeast as you would instant, or twice the weight of active dry. So if a recipe calls for 10 g of instant yeast, you’ll want about 30 g of fresh.
Keeping it fresh
Fresh yeast is a living product. Store it in the fridge at 4°C in its original wrapper and use within about four weeks. Look for a cool, firm block with a pale cream colour and a clean, yeasty smell. It also freezes well: portion, wrap tightly, and freeze for up to three months, then thaw overnight in the fridge before use.
Shipping
To protect the freshness and performance of this yeast, we ship this product within Ontario only. Orders are packed cold and shipped early in the week so your yeast arrives at its peak. Ships fridge-ready and chilled.
We will only ship this product out Mondays – Wednesdays to ensure business day shipping. Shipping should take 1-3 days, but it is not guaranteed.