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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
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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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The Resept of Clounes Woundwort
A remedy for fresh wound treatments made by reducing clown's woundwort in boar's grease, olive oil, and beeswax, then boiling in Venice turpentine.
The burnt salve to be made in may
A burn salve made from sempervivum or houseleek leaves and elderberry twigs, pounded and mixed with vinegar, urine, and candle wax.
My Grandmothers F: Sear Cloth
A recipe for an oil to be applied to clothes, made from red lead, white lead, bole armoniac (or Armenian bole, a type of clay), and olive oil.
Mrs Austens Salve for grene wound or olde sores
A method for making a salve for new or old wounds made by mixing camphor into a mixture of heated oil, beeswax, and white lead, then cooled and rolled into shape.
A Pultis for a Sore breast
Hot poultice to treat sore breasts made from milk, linseeds, sage, and olive oil.
A Famous salve for a sor [sore] Breast recommended by Lady Howe.
A method for preparing a salve or poultice for a sore breast (possibly related to breastfeeding), using mutton suet, oil, and rosin.
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