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salt-rising
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
sourdough (def. 1a) kept as a leavening agent for future batches of baking.
See: sourdough(def. 1a)
Quotations
1833
[The wife of a Canadian settler] must know how to manufacture hop-rising or salt-rising for leavening her bread.
1852
Butter and bread she is too modest to say much about, but she does venture a complaint about . . . salt-rising being rather uncertain, and not to be depended upon for the making of the other.
1951
Course the cook made salt-risin bread, but he couldn't get nobody to touch it after he got good on pancakes.