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According to the Society for the Preservation of Irish Soda Bread, Native Americans were making a soda bread (bread that uses acidic and alkaline compounds to rise instead of yeast) for centuries, using pearl ash. The Irish, however, didn’t start making soda bread until bicarbonate of soda was introduced in the 1840s.
