saleratus
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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)
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.
I mean, oh, I mean, some ill-bred person has put saleratus in my little bowl.
From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Speed, Nell
Mix a tea cup of cream, two of sugar, a couple of beaten eggs, and a wine glass of milk, with a tea spoonful of saleratus dissolved in it.
If your yeast appears to be sour, put a little saleratus in just before you put it into your bread; if it does not foam well, it is too stale to use.