pearlash

[purl-ash]

noun

Origin of pearlash

First recorded in 1720–30; pearl¹ + ash¹

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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