About
Contributors
Browse Recipes
Food
Breads and Baked Goods
Meat-based Dishes
Vegetable-based dishes
Dairy and Cheeses
Preserving, Pickling, Fermenting
Sauces and Condiments
Sweets and Desserts
Drinks
Alcoholic Drinks
Health Waters
Health and Medicine
Health Waters
Household Goods
Browse Ingredients & Methods
Research Topics
Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
The Cookbook as a Source
Cookbooks as a Window Into the Household
Sugar
Food and Music
Search
Skip to main content
Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
About
Contributors
Browse Recipes
Food
Breads and Baked Goods
Meat-based Dishes
Vegetable-based dishes
Dairy and Cheeses
Preserving, Pickling, Fermenting
Sauces and Condiments
Sweets and Desserts
Drinks
Alcoholic Drinks
Health Waters
Health and Medicine
Health Waters
Household Goods
Browse Ingredients & Methods
Research Topics
Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
The Cookbook as a Source
Cookbooks as a Window Into the Household
Sugar
Food and Music
Search
Fairfax Cookbook
Item set
Items
Options
of 12
26–50 of 296
Advanced search
Created
Resource class
Title
Ascending
Descending
Sort
To pickele Harty Choakes [artichokes]
A method for pickling artichokes by parboiling in water and soaking in vinegar and salt
To Pickele Barberys [barberries]
A method for pickling barberry fruit in salt water
To Physic Children after the Small Pox
To Paint Grates Black
To Make wigs the Lady Neviles way
A recipe for making wigs, a bun/small cake.
To make white wine vinegere [vinegar]
A method for making vinegar by steeping malaga grapes in a vessel for 3 months.
To Make Walnut Catchep [Ketchup]
To Make unstilled Lemon Water
To Make the york Ginger Bread
A recipe for gingerbread using claret wine, ginger, cinnamon, mace, cloves, Jamaica pepper (allspice), sanders (sandalwood), and bread crumbs.
To Make the wine caled Necture [nectar]
Describes a process for creating a sweet wine by fermenting grapes with loaf sugar and lemon juice.
To make the weben salve
To make the syrope of Mault for a Consumtion
To Make the Seed Cake Mrs Malbery
Recipe for making seed cake, using caraway comfits.
To make the Read[text loss] the Ducheys of Buckinham way
A recipe for medicinal powder to help with a variety of ailments.
to Make the Queens kakes
A recipe for making small cakes with currants and spices.
To Make the Poultis for it
To Make the Oyster loaves
A recipe for stewed oysters cooked with French bread
To Make the Ladys Easy
A medicinal drink to treat an unknown ailment [possibly menstrual or childbirth issues?] using mustard seed, treacle, and beer, taken for nine mornings.
To Make the Lady Kents Pouder
To Make the French friters
A recipe for "French fritters" using flour, apples, orange flower water, and nutmeg, fried in fat.
To Make the Fine Great Cake
A recipe for a spiced cake, made with cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, and currants, glazed and finished with orange or lemon peel.
To Make The Black Plaster
To make the best Litele plombe Kakes [little plum cakes]
To Make Suger of Roses
To make stuffing for boiled Turkey or Fowls or a [illegible] Pike
of 12
26–50 of 296