The Joy of (Baking) Soda
During the early years of European settlement of the Americas, settlers and some groups of Indigenous peoples of the Americas used soda or pearl ash, more commonly known as potash (pot ash) or potassium carbonate, as a leavening agent (the forerunner to baking soda) in quick breads.
2019-02-08 by Lightnin' Hopkins, Roberta Johnson
