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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
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Mock Madeira
A process for making a mock version of madeira using Malaga grapes, brown sugar, and ale, fermented in casks with brandy, sugar candy, and isinglass.
Metcalfs Cordial
Mary Gold [marigold] wine
A recipe for wine made by boiling sugar and egg white with marigold flowers and lemon, mixed with sack (a kind of white wine)
Elder Brandy
A process for making a spiced, fruited brandy using elderberries, mace, and cloves (and possibly with bread crumbs).
Cowslip Wine
A process for making a wine using cowslip flowers, ale yeast, egg whites, citrus, and sugar steeped in Rhenish wine (a German white wine or rosé) and aged in sack or wine casks.
Cock Ale
A recipe for making ale with rooster meat (starts with ale that has already been brewed, as well as sack, a type of white wine).
Aqua Mirabelis
All Sorts of Wines
A Sack Poset [posset]
A recipe for making a "sack posset", a drink made from hot milk/cream curdled with ale, wine, or other liquor, with sugar, herbs, spices, etc.,
A Lemon Caudle
A consumsion water
[Recipe for brewing a drink with water, sugar, and hops]
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