saleratus

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I have been raised on too much saleratus in the bread, and I know it.”

From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Speed, Nell

Treatment.—First wash the body with a strong lie of wood ashes or weak saleratus water, then with an infusion of lobelia.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

I might also mention several other additions, which, like saleratus, it is becoming fashionable to make.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Receipt 3.—Wheat meal, one quart; cream of tartar, two tea-spoonfuls; saleratus, one tea-spoonful; and two and a half teacups full of milk.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Dissolve two tea spoonsful of saleratus in half a tea cup of water, turn it into the cake, together with half a pint of cider, stir in two pounds of flour and a grated nutmeg.

From The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous