“I have used this active years for a couple of years with success. If I'm making sourdough bread or baguettes and want to add a small amount of yeast, I add the water and sourdough starter to the flour and mix toogether, leave it for 2 hours, then add 1 level teaspoon of active yeast (for 500g flour) and the salt, and mix well in my stand mixer (4 min slow + 7 min fast for baguettes). I don't add the yeast to water first because (a) I want to let the sourdough starter get a head start and (b) I don't want to add extra water after I have got a the hydration the recipe calls for. I have never found that adding yeast dry to the dough causes any problems at all.”
“I have used this active years for a couple of years with success. If I'm making sourdough bread or baguettes and want to add a small amount of yeast, I add the water and sourdough starter to the flour and mix toogether, leave it for 2 hours, then add 1 level teaspoon of active yeast (for 500g flour) and the salt, and mix well in my stand mixer (4 min slow + 7 min fast for baguettes). I don't add the yeast to water first because (a) I want to let the sourdough starter get a head start and (b) I don't want to add extra water after I have got a the hydration the recipe calls for. I have never found that adding yeast dry to the dough causes any problems at all.”
“I use it in my bread maker and although the yeast is supposed to be activated in water,
it works well without doing so in my Moulinex bread maker on the ''French Bread'' setting.”
