The Role of Active Dry Yeast in the 1940s

Active dry yeast can sit on a shelf for about one to two years and still be alive. It reminds me in a way of sea monkeys because you get these sea monkeys they'd be dried desiccatedYou put them in water and hopefully come alive unless they're too old in which case they don't. Fleishman's rolled this out in 1943 and the US military immediately said thank you. Like shelf stable yeast for the whole US war machine in World War II it just made military baking and feeding the troops a lot easier across the board.