It reveals the feelings of boys to the "tartars" who teach school, as the boys, when they got control, put the tartar into confinement and "forced him to eat the boys' dinners and drink half a cask of their beer every day."
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Add one teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of sugar, three cupfuls of milk, and enough flour, sifted in with one teaspoonful of cream tartar and half a teaspoonful of soda, to make a thin batter.
"The Myrtle Reed Cook Book"
Myrtle Reed
If it assumes a persistent tendency, give a tablespoonful of the following powder in the feed three times a day: Cream of tartar, sulphur, and nitrate of potassium, equal parts by weight; mix.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler