saleratus
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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
Buttermilk or sour milk with a tea spoonful of saleratus, is better to mix with the Indian meal, than sweet milk and eggs.
Dissolve two tea spoonsful of saleratus in half a tea cup of water, turn it into the cake, together with half a pint of cider, stir in two pounds of flour and a grated nutmeg.
Some housekeepers soak ripe peas over night, in water in which they have dissolved a little saleratus.
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)
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
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