We have an old recipe for sweet rolls from my grandmother that calls for "a nickel's-worth of yeast". I assume this dates back to buying cakes of fresh yeast from the grocer. The recipe was probably from my great-grandmother, so they would have made the rolls in the 1920s-30s-40s. Might anyone know what that reference would mean in an actual measurement? And a conversion to a dry yeast?

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