Comments on: Quick rise http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2007/07/24/quick-rise/ Dada, bring my beer in the living room Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:49:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: heather http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2007/07/24/quick-rise/comment-page-1/#comment-23738 heather Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:20:55 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2007/07/24/quick-rise/#comment-23738 <p>when i was ten, my family spent a week at a cabin in door county, wisconsin...the beach was a short walk (through some woods! mosquito filled woods!) away.</p> <p>my mom had read something somewhere...as a mosquito repellent, we all swallowed a half-teaspoon (ish) of cake yeast every day.</p> <p>i'm pretty sure when you're ten, in the summer, your job is generally to have random bites and weird scabs and stuff, so i'm not sure if it worked. but that's the only time in my life i've interacted with cake yeast.</p> <p>aaaand that's my yeast story.</p> when i was ten, my family spent a week at a cabin in door county, wisconsin…the beach was a short walk (through some woods! mosquito filled woods!) away.

my mom had read something somewhere…as a mosquito repellent, we all swallowed a half-teaspoon (ish) of cake yeast every day.

i’m pretty sure when you’re ten, in the summer, your job is generally to have random bites and weird scabs and stuff, so i’m not sure if it worked. but that’s the only time in my life i’ve interacted with cake yeast.

aaaand that’s my yeast story.

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