[nw_arizona_granny]

I’m not sure what she means by her neighbor providing fresh yeast. <<<

I think she might be talking about everlasting yeast.

There is the cake yeast, dry yeast, sour dough starter and a sponge yeast and everlasting.

I think the everlasting is what the pioneers used, it is like a sourdough, but not allowed to sour.

I know that my mom did not buy little packets of yeast, when we were kids, I have seen her use cakes of yeast.

Some where on this thread, I posted a bunch of stuff about everlasting yeast.

LOL, I am more asleep than awake, but here it is, a quick glance shows it was the Pioneer’s yeast:

http://www.google.com/search?q=everlasting+yeast&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Look for post 5096:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?q=1&;page=5096