saleratus

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I have been raised on too much saleratus in the bread, and I know it.”

From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Speed, Nell

It is 60 like the saleratus which the pioneers used to cast into their barrels of Missouri River water, to precipitate the silt and make it clear.

From The Rustler of Wind River by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

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

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.

Treatment.—First wash the body with a strong lie of wood ashes or weak saleratus water, then with an infusion of lobelia.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George