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Jenn
 
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Default question about yeast in a recipe



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"Pennyaline" > wrote in
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> "Jenn" wrote:
> > But my grandmother used to make these with us, and we never let them

rise
> at
> > all, that's why I can't figure out why the yeast is in them. It's not

> that
> > it doesn't say to let it rise, but that when she was "teaching" my dad

how
> > to make it, she never had him let it rise. Just doesn't make sense to

me.
>
> Hmmmmm. When your grandmother made them, did they come out crisp and
> cookie-like or puffed and bread-like?


They're not bread like, more like a cookie, but not quite crisp. Like I
said, when I get to making them again, sometime here in the next few days or
so, I'm going to try them w/o the yeast and see how it works out. It just
doesn't make any sense to me to have it in there! Jenn. W.