saleratus
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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 H. J. Clayton
Old lamp burners should be boiled often in strong saleratus water.
From Cloud City Cook-Book by Mrs. William H. Nash
Hot milk, a little fried pork, two of the eggs, and a loaf of saleratus bread were all she had to offer, but it was very welcome to the hungry travellers.
From A Round Dozen by Susan Coolidge
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
If saleratus is used in bread where no acidity is present, it is a medicine; or, if you please, a poison both to the stomach and intestines.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
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