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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
Recipe Books & Women’s Knowledge
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To make white wine vinegere [vinegar]
A method for making vinegar by steeping malaga grapes in a vessel for 3 months.
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 Elder Wine
This describes a process of making wine with (probably Malagousia) grapes, mixed with elderberry juice, and left to process for 6-8 weeks.
Tincture sena
An infusion of senna and cardamom in brandy for unknown use.
My lady Nevels Surfit [surfeit] water
A recipe for surfeit water (liquid medicine for indigestion).
Mock Madeira
A process for making a mock version of madeira using Malaga grapes, brown sugar, and ale, fermented in casks with brandy, sugar candy, and isinglass.
For a pimpled Face
A recipe for acne made from grape juice, camphor, sugar candy, roche alum, and verdigris, all mixed and kept underground for 40 days.
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