I love the smell of yeast cakes, though I haven’t seen anything but dry yeast in years. When I was a kid my mother baked homemade bread 2 or 3 times a week. She would make sandwiches of it for my school lunches. I was so embarrassed to pull my obviously homemade bread sandwiches out of my brown paper bag. I wanted Wonder Bread like the other kids had.
I would give anything to have my Mom’s bread spread with homemade black raspberry jelly right now.
I love the smell of yeast and of homemade bread. I used to bake a lot of bread of all types. But some years ago I worked at a company that was just down the road from the Red Star Yeast plant in Baltimore. OMG! You’d think it would smell wonderful, but it didn’t. Some days, especially if it was humid, I’d feel a lump in the back of my throat, would feel nauseous.
Now when I worked down the road from McCormick’s, that was different except for the days they were making garlic powder.
bkmk