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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
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Orang Buter [orange butter]
A recipe for making orange butter.
o Make Duch Goaters
Napels bisket the beste
A recipe for making naples biscuits using almond flour and sweet cream.
My Mothers resept for Almond pufs
My Lady Plymoths Sack Poset [posset]
Describes a recipe for "sack posset," a kind of hot drink made with milk curdled with alcohol. This recipe uses sack, a kind of white wine.
My Lady Neviles orange Kakes [cakes]
A recipe for making a confection by mixing orange peel and fruit with boiled sugar.
My Lady Nevels orange or lemon Kakes [cakes]
A recipe for a confection made by stewing orange peel and pulp with boiled sugar to make small cakes
My Lady N French Bread
My Aunt Flevils Seed Kake
A recipe for making cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
Mrs Bushels Caraway Cake
A recipe for making caraway cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
Miss Cripps’ Receipt for making Water Cakes
A recipe for a baked good using flour, sugar, and caraway seeds.
Mince pies Mr Elmsall Emley
Marchpaine Cakes
Recipe for making "marchpaine cakes," or marzipan cakes, using sugar, almonds, and rose water.
Lemon Pickle
How to make Salt Hams
A method for curing ham using salt, saltpeter (potassium nitrate), and salt prunella / sal-prunella (another form of saltpeter).
Her French bread
Goosberry [gooseberry] Vinegar
A method for making a vinegar by steeping fresh gooseberries with liquor and brown sugar.
Friteres
French Angelets [angelots]
Recipe for making a soft cheese , possibly "French angelot," using cream and rennet
For Cookery & Pickeles [pickles]
A method for pickling purslane or other vegetables by soaking in salt water and boiling with white vinegar and spices.
Fish Sauce
A recipe for brewing a sauce using port wine, anchovies, vinegar, horseradish, onion, and herbs and spices.
Crisp Pastes for Tarts
A recipe for pastry dough using sugar, flower, boiled cream, and butter. The recipe is possibly signed "HS".
Chocolate puffs
A recipe for making a meringue-like dessert by mixing very fine sugar and chocolate into whipped egg whites and baking in a low oven.
Chescakes [cheesecakes] with out Curd
A recipe for making cheesecake.
Almond Pufs [puffs]
A recipe for a confection made with blanched pulverized almonds, orange blossom water, and sugar mixed with beaten egg whites (which may be similar to a meringue cookie).
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