saleratus
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You can tell why—his face with all those yellow freckles looks like an old fashioned saleratus biscuit.
From The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found by Hill, Grace Brooks
Some people use only a tea spoonful of saleratus, to a pint of molasses, but it is much better with more, appearing in point of lightness like sponge cake.
Buttermilk or sour milk with a tea spoonful of saleratus, is better to mix with the Indian meal, than sweet milk and eggs.
Dissolve a tea spoonful of saleratus, in half a tea cup of water and strain it into the cake, knead in flour till quite stiff.
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)