Yeast Powder

Six eggs, six tablespoonfuls of flour, one quart of milk, two teaspoonfuls of yeast-powder. ❋ Unknown (1875)

Their way lay along the flank of Table Mountain, — a wandering trail through a tangled solitude that might have seemed virgin and unbroken but for a few oyster-cans, yeast-powder tins, and empty bottles that had been apparently stranded by the “first low wash” of pioneer waves. ❋ Unknown (1873)

Mrs. Downs's bread had yellow specks of saleratus in it, and was very different from Wealthy's delicious loaves; but they were too hungry to criticise, though Eyebright shook her head over it, and thought with satisfaction of the big parcel of yeast-powder which she and Wealthy had packed up. ❋ Susan Coolidge (1870)

Their way lay along the flank of Table Mountain, -- a wandering trail through a tangled solitude that might have seemed virgin and unbroken but for a few oyster-cans, yeast-powder tins, and empty bottles that had been apparently stranded by the "first low wash" of pioneer waves. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

"Gracious, Cecil, does he feed on yeast-powder to make him 'rise' so? ❋ Mrs. George Croft Huddleston (N/A)

Oh [darling] did you have to do such a [yeast powder biscuit] before our friewnds come [round]? ❋ Jimbo (2004)