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From: "Bill Poindexter" <>
Subject: SALERATUS
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 17:29:18 -0800

>From the book "What Did They Mean By That.

Saleratus: or soda, baking soda as we know it today. In early
Pennsylvania baking soda was hard to come by. So they would burn
cobs to ashes and us as a substitute.

Tub: early use, unlike now usually a measure of 60 lb. of tea. camphor
often was measured in tubs, however the weight varied from 56 to 86
lb..

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