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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 the weben [weapon] salve
A recipe for a healing salve made by mixing bacon fat and the blood of a wound on the weapon that caused the wound.
To make Spirit of Urin
Directions for distilling urine.
To Dy [Dye] Blue
This recipe gives instructions for creating a blue dye for wool, using logwood and verdigris.
To Dy [dye] a Good Red
This recipe gives instructions for creating a red dye for wool, using brazilwood, madder, alum, and chamber-lye (urine), soaked in "tap droppings" or dregs.
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.
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