THE IRISH YEAST COMPANY

THE IRISH YEAST COMPANY

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his small shop, over a century old, wedged somewhat appropriately between high-rise financial buildings opposite Trinity College, Dublin may be a quaint anachronism in a fast-changing city landscape, but it is still holding its own. Originally founded by a Dublin barrister in the 1890s to supply fresh yeast to Dublin bakeries, it changed direction when it was taken over by its present owners, the Morelands in the 1940s. Although it still supplies fresh yeast, its main business now is wedding cake and icing equipment and the windows are artfully decorated with silvered cake boards, cake ornaments, pillars, icing syringes, nozzles and forcing bags, attracting customers from all over the country