Evolution home experiment?
Keep in mind that the citrate utilizing strain appeared after over a decade. Also, Escherichia coli could always metabolize citrate, but the citrate transporter that brings it into the cell is only expressed under anaerobic conditions [1]. The strain that evolved to import citrate under aerobic conditions had a duplication of the transporter gene which put it under the control of a different promoter that drives expression under aerobic conditions [2]. Baker's yeast doesn't have amylase or debranching enzyme genes [3], so a similar evolutionary mechanism cannot occur. Developing such enzymes de novo doesn't seem trivial, but perhaps the enzymes involved in glycogen metabolism can be repurposed. The only way to know is to try. 



References:


Blount et al., 2008
Blount et al., 2012
Ostergaard et al., 2000