saleratus

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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

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

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

Dissolve a tea spoonful of saleratus, in half a tea cup of milk, and turn it in, together with flour sufficient 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

I have been raised on too much saleratus in the bread, and I know it.”

From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Speed, Nell

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