Crossword-Solution: SALERATUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Saleratus | n. | Aerated salt; a white crystalline substance having an alkaline taste and reaction, consisting of sodium bicarbonate (see under Sodium.) It is largely used in cooking, with sour milk (lactic acid) or cream of tartar as a substitute for yeast. It is also an ingredient of most baking powders, and is used in the preparation of effervescing drinks. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SALERATUS | anagram | ASARESULT, ASSAULTER |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SALERATUS (5)
She had admitted to us that the one thing she had in the house was saleratus, and she had used this ingredient with an unsparing hand.
She had a special dislike for that periodical, and her severest comment on any woman was that she was the type who would "keep a dog, make saleratus biscuit, and read the New York Ledger in the daytime." Our modest library also contained several histories of Greece and Rome, which must have been good ones, for years later, when I entered college, I passed my examination in ancient history with no other preparation than this reading.
The boiled tea was very bitter, the omelet scorched, and the biscuits speckled with saleratus, but Mrs.
And here was a man whose saleratus you had et and at whose table you had played games of cards--if casino can be so called.
Sharpe had quitted his forge for the night and, seated at his domestic board, was, with a dismal presentiment of future indigestion, voraciously absorbing his favorite meal of hot saleratus biscuits swimming in butter, he had apparently forgotten his curiosity concerning Mainwaring and settled himself to a complaining chronicle of the day's mishaps.
Quotes with SALERATUS (1)
I turned from my window. Suddenly it seemed odd for my neighbors on both sides to have visitors while I had none. For the first time, I felt lonely at 'Sconset." Let's cook," Frannie said energetically. "We will smell so good that they'll all come running." She picked up a bowl, filled it with apples from the barrel, and immediately began to cut them up. I put water to boil, got out cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, lard, flour, sugar, salt, saleratus, vinegar, and all the other thin…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1992).