Items · Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book

White Pudens

A recipe for making white pudding, a savory pudding (appears that it may be related to Yorkshire Pudding).

To stop vomiting

A treatment for vomiting made by boiling rosemary, lavender, spearmint, wormwood, cinnamon, and clove with red wine.

to Make the Queens kakes

A recipe for making small cakes with currants and spices.

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 best Litele plombe Kakes [little plum cakes]

To make stuffing for boiled Turkey or Fowls or a [illegible] Pike

To Make sausiges [sausages]

A method for making pork sausage in natural casing with suet, spices, herbs, bread, and eggs,

To Make My owne Chees Cakes [cheesecakes]

A recipe to make cheese cake.

To Make Marow Pudens [Marrow Pudding]

Describes a recipe for a boiled "marrow pudens," or marrow pudding, using bone marrow, dried fruits, rosewater, and spices.

To Make a Sack Poset [posset]

A recipe to make a thick custard/drink similar to pudding.

To Make a Sack Poset [posset]

A recipe for a thick pudding-like dish made by mixing eggs, sack, and sugar with boiled cream and cooking these together.

To Make A Raire Great Cake

A recipe for making a great cake

To Make a Quakeing Puding [Pudding]

A recipe for a sweet steamed pudding (dessert) with nutmeg, covered with blanched almonds and topped with a mix of butter, sack (a fortified white wine), and sugar.

To make a fine Baked Puding [pudding] MB

A recipe for baked pudding using milk, almonds, nutmeg, mace, sugar, salt, cream, butter, bone marrow or beef suet, and "Napps Bisquets."

To Make a Dish of Scotch Colops [collops]

A recipe for veal fried with butter and spices and stewed in gravy.

To Make a Cabage Puding [cabbage pudding]

A recipe for a "cabbage pudding," using minced veal, beef fat, herbs and spices, and wrapped in cabbage leaves before boiling.

To boyle Flownders [boil flounder]

A recipe for a flounder cooked in a sauce of wine, spices, lemon, and onion

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.