pearl ash
Britishnoun
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In the 1780s, American cooks started adding the chemical leavener pearl ash to their pancake batter.
From Slate • Feb. 5, 2013
Sulphate of iron or copper, or both together, may be dissolved in water and then neutralized with common crude potash, or its carbonate or bicarbonate--known commonly as pearl ash and saleratus.
From American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by Humphrey, S. D. (Samuel Dwight)
Book uses both pearl-ash and pearl ash; salmon-fly and salmon fly.
From Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies by Blacker, William
Another receipt for pink or rose red says:—1 gallon of infusion of Brazil wood, with 2 oz. additional of pearl ash; but it is necessary to brush the wood often with alum water.
From Intarsia and Marquetry by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
They do not discourage our rice, pot and pearl ash, salted provisions, or whale-oil; but these articles, being in small demand at their markets, are carried thither but in a small degree.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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