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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
About
Project Launch and 18th Century British Baking Challenge
Acknowledgements and Contributors
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 & Methods
Research Topics
Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
Cookbooks as a Window Into the Household
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To Make a Creame Chees [cream cheese]
A recipe for making cream cheese
To Make a Caraway Kake
To Make a Caraway Cake
A recipe to make a baked caraway cake, using caraway comfits.
To Make a Cabage Puding
A recipe for a "cabbage pudding," using minced veal, beef fat, herbs and spices, and wrapped in cabbage leaves before boiling.
To Make
To M Take of the heat of the liver
To kill Bugs and worms in horsis [horses]
A remedy for de-worming horses using milk, honey, and salt water.
To increase flesh or Cure a Wound
An ointment that promotes wound healing made of dragon's blood, aloe succotrina, and olibanum.
To Ice a Cake
A recipe for making icing, and directions for icing a cake.
To heal without a Scar
An ointment for preventing scarring made from elder buds, elder leaves, and white sugar.
To fine Ale
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).
To dry up milk
Two methods for drying up breast milk (presumably after weaning a breast feeding child) by applying soaked cloths; one with alum, and the other, diachylon .
To drive out the Measles
A remedy for measles made of pimpernel boiled in milk.
To draw out an Imposthume without incision
A plaster for treating abscesses made of leeks and lard.
To desolve the Stone
A medicinal treatment for dissolving stones (probably kidney stones) made from distilled cow dung.
To desolve a hard Brest
A poultice to dissolve a hard breast (breast lump?) made from honey, brandy, and wax.
To Cure the biting of a mad dog
Directions for treating a bite from a dog with rabies, using cupping and a poultice made of leeks, wormwood, onions, salt, butter, and honey.
To cover a Naked Bone with Flesh
Recipe for an ointment to put on exposed bone that includes oil or roses, ginger, and honey of roses.
To Cause urin presently
A remedy to promote urination made from juniper oil and parsley water.
To Calver & Pickel [pickle] Salmon
A process for pickling and calvering salmon (a method of preparing fresh salmon) with vinegar, spices, herbs, and onion.
To break an Imposthume in the Eare or for a Noise in the head
A poultice for treating ear abscesses or tinnitus made from wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum), onions, and brandy.
To boyle Flownders [boil flounder]
A recipe for a flounder cooked in a sauce of wine, spices, lemon, and onion
To Boyle [boil] Spinage [spinach] stalks
A recipe for boiling spinach ("like lettuce or asparagus") served with melted butter
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