saleratus

Old lamp burners should be boiled often in strong saleratus water.

From Cloud City Cook-Book by Mrs. William H. Nash

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.

From The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous

Dissolve a tea spoonful of saleratus, in a tea cup of milk, and strain it into the cake.

From The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous

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 William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

Treatment.—First wash the body with a strong lie of wood ashes or weak saleratus water, then with an infusion of lobelia.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd