saleratus
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Some housekeepers soak ripe peas over night, in water in which they have dissolved a little saleratus.
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)
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
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)
Should vomiting be a predominant symptom, a small quantity of saleratus, dissolved in spearmint tea, may be given.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
Dissolve a large table spoonful of saleratus, in half a pint of water, strain and mix it with the rest of the ingredients, together with flour enough to enable you to roll it out easily.
