pearlash

Historical Examples

• If cheese get hard, and lose its flavour, pour some sweet wine over four ounces of pearlash, till the liquor ceases to ferment.

  The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches,

  Mary Eaton

• Every thing mixed with pearlash should be put in the oven immediately.

  The American Frugal Housewife

  Lydia M. Child

• Pearlash and warm water will sometimes do alone, but it is the most efficacious to use the soap-lather and pearlash together.

  Our Deportment

  John H. Young

• After careful cleansing, the gut is split up into strands, and treated with a bath of pearlash water for several days.

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887

  Various

• Thousands of wagon loads of pure saleratus and pearlash could be got here.

  Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51

  E. S. (Eleazer Stillman) Ingalls