L'Hirondelle French Fresh Yeast 12 x 42g Blocks

I love this product. I have been baking bread for nearly fifty years and this is the only yeast for me now.

It's fresh, it's active and it makes an excellent loaf of bread. It arrives with a cooling pack and always within a few days of placing the order. There are twelve 42gram cubes in the pack and that gives me enough for 18 loaves of bread, before I order some more. I use 4 fresh from the pack on arrival and freeze 8. They have a few hours at room temperature to bring them back to life and they then behave as if they were fresh from "Bonbouffe". I have been using this yeast for many years now since it is impossible to buy it locally. Highly recommended.

Excellent. You can freeze it for a few months but not more.

Great product. I’ve been buying this fresh yeast for a while now for my breads. I keep it in the freezer and usually cut a piece (8g) that is needed and return the rest in the freezer. It keeps well. It smells like yeast should smell and it works great both in hand kneading breads as well as bread machines (put in the bottom of your bread machine followed by dry ingredients). Very pleased with this product and would recommend it.

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This is exceptional fresh yeast. It is incredibly reactive, even though I keep all of mine frozen until ready to use. It has a wonderful smell, feels excellent and it is the only yeast I use. 42g blocks I guess are a little on the large size, but I must admit I use half of one then re-freeze the other half, and I cannot detect any reduction in performance. With other frozen yeasts I find they lose their potency but this eager little colony jumps straight into my dough ready for work.

Zero activity from this yeast. Have been using dried yeast for over 6 years with great results but thought I'd try this fresh yeast and see if improved my bread baking. It did not. There is no reaction when I put it in water with sugar to check it is active. I used some fresh as it arrived, and frozen the rest as per other people's recommendation. The fresh stuff was marginally still alive and after a glacially slow rise I was able to make some disappointing pizza bases. The frozen stuff has zero activity. I am happily returning to dried yeast. As I write this a 3 year out of date sachet of dried yeast is foaming merrily in a jug of water on my worktop. I will be binning this product. Worth a punt, but turned out to be a waste of money. Less convenient, more expensive, less reliable.

Excellent product and great value.