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Best Answer: 1/4 oz is roughly one tablespoon (3 teaspoons), but the amount of yeast you put in a bread recipe is not that critical. If you under-estimate the amount of yeast, it will take longer for the yeasts to proliferate and the bread to rise, but you'll still get a good bread. Red Star Yeast company says that one packet of 1/4 oz yeast has 2 and 1/4 teaspoons of yeast.
TIPS. 1  If the ratio of sugar to flour is more than 1/2 cup sugar to 4 cups flour, an additional packet of yeast (2+1/4 tsp) per recipe is needed.  When changing your bread recipe from cake yeast to dry yeast, any of the dry yeast types (Active Dry Yeast, Instant Yeast or Bread Machine Yeast) may be substituted. See Yeast Types & Usage for additional information. Dry yeast requires different water/liquid temperatures than cake yeast.