saleratus
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When they begin to grow soft, stew them over a hot fire several minutes, with a heaping tea spoonful of saleratus.
Mix a tea cup of cream, two of sugar, a couple of beaten eggs, and a wine glass of milk, with a tea spoonful of saleratus dissolved in it.
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 Palmer, Alice Freeman
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 Nash, Wallis
Where saleratus is used, it should be thoroughly dissolved and strained.