saleratus

Example Sentences

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Old lamp burners should be boiled often in strong saleratus water.

From Cloud City Cook-Book by Nash, Mrs. William H.

Same as Walnut or Hickory-nut; but use no molasses, and when done, set off and stir in one teaspoon saleratus; mark into sticks.

From Frye's Practical Candy Maker Comprising Practical Receipts for the Manufacture of Fine "Hand-Made" Candies by Frye, George V.

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)

Biscuits were made of flour, using a little corn meal for shortening and saleratus for raising.

From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska

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