saleratus
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Thousands of wagon loads of pure saleratus and pearlash could be got here.
From Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
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
Old lamp burners should be boiled often in strong saleratus water.
From Cloud City Cook-Book by Nash, Mrs. William H.
One pint best yellow corn-meal, 1 pint of butter-milk, 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter, 2 eggs and teaspoonful of salt, 1 teaspoonful saleratus; mix well, and bake at a brisk fire.
From Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of all Classes by Clayton, H. J.
Dissolve a tea spoonful of saleratus, in half a tea cup of milk, and turn it in, together with flour sufficient to enable you to roll it out easily.
