SC - Yeast

[Jane Boyko]

What kind of pastry?  It does make a difference.

Yeast breads appear in Egypt and the Swiss lake villages around 3500 BCE.
There are some Roman recipes which use yeast and there are a few period
recipes which call for yeast, but most yeast pastry recipes are after 1600.

Bear   

> I just looked at the Food Timeline and I don't have any of my 
> history books
> with me.  Can anyone tell me when yeast first came into use 
> with pastry?
> 
> Thanks
> Marina