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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
About
Project Launch and 18th Century British Baking Challenge
Project History
Acknowledgements and Contributors
View the Original Manuscript
Bibliography
Contact
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 & Subjects
Research Topics
Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
Cookbooks as a Window Into the Household
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To Make Mrs Fleetwoods Surfeit Watter
A recipe for surfeit water (liquid medicine for indigestion).
This Resept Good a Gainst infection
A cure for various illnesses made from a mixture of herbs, long peppers, ginger, nutmegs, aqua vitae, Venice treacle (Theriac), and the cure-all mithridate.
My Unkle Bladen’s Balsom for Man of Horseflesh
A medicinal recipe using myrrh and aloe dissolved in alcohol.
Mrs Fletwoods Surfeit water
A recipe for surfeit water (liquid medicine for indigestion).
For an ague for a child, if for a man a greater proporsion [proportion]
A remedy for fever (ague) using egg white mixed with spirits and peppercorns, to be consumed.
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