saleratus
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At Philadelphia in 1876 Vienna bread was made known, and the native article, sodden with saleratus, which up to that time had desolated the country, 360 began to disappear.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
Biscuits were made of flour, using a little corn meal for shortening and saleratus for raising.
From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska
It is 60 like the saleratus which the pioneers used to cast into their barrels of Missouri River water, to precipitate the silt and make it clear.
From The Rustler of Wind River by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
It is the greatest possible quandary to be in, to be set down with flour, water, and a tin of saleratus or baking-powder, and to have to make the bread or go without.
From Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash
I have been raised on too much saleratus in the bread, and I know it.”
From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Nell Speed
