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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
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White Quince Marmallete [marmalade]
A recipe for marmalade made by boiling quinces with sugar, set with pippin jelly (probably a fruit jelly)
White Pudens
A recipe for making white pudding, a savory pudding (appears that it may be related to Yorkshire Pudding).
Wassel Cake
This recipe gives directions for making a "cake" of currants by mixing currants with milk. May be incomplete; title may actually refer to "Wasel" Cake.
Wakefield ginger bread
To roste [roast] a Shoulder of Mutton in the Blood
A recipe for preparing mutton shoulder using sheep's blood and herbs
To Preserve the strength of Sinemond
A method for preserving cinnamon bark by wrapping in linen cloth.
To Pot Lobster
A recipe for cooking and preserving lobster in butter with onion and spices
To pickle Walnuts like mangoes
A method for pickling walnuts by steeping and stuffing with spices.
To pickle Eggs
A method for pickling eggs with vinegar and spices
To Pickle Cabbage
To pickele pidgions [pickle pigeons]
A recipe for boiled pigeon stuffed with herbs and spices and pickled with vinegar.
To pickele Harty Choakes [artichokes]
A method for pickling artichokes by parboiling in water and soaking in vinegar and salt
To Pickele Barberys [barberries]
A method for pickling barberry fruit in salt water
To Make wigs the Lady Neviles way
A recipe for making wigs, a bun/small cake.
To make white wine vinegere [vinegar]
A method for making vinegar by steeping malaga grapes in a vessel for 3 months.
To Make Walnut Catchep [Ketchup]
To Make the york Ginger Bread
A recipe for gingerbread using claret wine, ginger, cinnamon, mace, cloves, Jamaica pepper (allspice), sanders (sandalwood), and bread crumbs.
To Make the Seed Cake Mrs Malbery
Recipe for making seed cake, using caraway comfits.
to Make the Queens kakes
A recipe for making small cakes with currants and spices.
To Make the Oyster loaves
A recipe for stewed oysters cooked with French bread
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 Starch
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