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)
It's only spring, yet they are thicker round here already than lumps of saleratus in those biscuit we've been talkin' about.
From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.
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
When they begin to grow soft, stew them over a hot fire several minutes, with a heaping tea spoonful of saleratus.
I might also mention several other additions, which, like saleratus, it is becoming fashionable to make.
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)
