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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
About
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View the Original Manuscript
Acknowledgements and Contributors
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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Antioxidants and their Uses
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[Untitled recipe for brewing a drink with water, sugar, and hops]
A recipe for a drink made by boiling hops with sugar, used for unknown purposes
[text loss; top of page N125 stained and torn; may be continued]
Appears to be a recipe for a poultice or plaster, using beeswax, pitch, mace (pepper), and turpentine, spread on a sheepskin and worn on the stomach.
[Recipe for treating “bowel complaint”, using rhubarb and magnesium]
A recipe to cure a nonspecific bowel issue using rhubarb, magnesium, ginger, and sugar.
[Hathorn's] Tincture
A recipe for making a medicinal tincture using crushed tree bark mixed with orange peel, snakeroot (a non-specific plant genus), saffron, and cochineal and steeped in brandy.
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