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 Clayton, H. J.
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
Should vomiting be a predominant symptom, a small quantity of saleratus, dissolved in spearmint tea, may be given.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
At Philadelphia in 1876 Vienna bread was made known, and the native article, sodden with saleratus, which up to that time had desolated the country, 360 began to disappear.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
Dissolve a tea spoonful of saleratus, in half a tea cup of water and strain it into the cake, knead in flour till quite stiff.
