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how to store yeast

"flash gordon, md" <flash@well.com>
Tue, 25 Jun 1996 23:13:27 -0700
v096.n023.5
>From: Lynn Schneiderman <lynns@creighton.edu>
>Subject: How to store yeast
>Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 14:40:44 -0500 (CDT)

>Hi all,
>
>I'm hoping some of you can help me. How can one store yeast so that it
>doesn't go "bad"?   

what i do is buy the big bag at costco and keep it in the freezer. i then
keep maybe half a jar of yeast in the door of the 'frig.  

if you find that you can go thru 2/3rds of a jar before it goes bad, just
transfer 2/3rds of a jar at a time from the frozen "big bag o' yeast."

good luck!

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